Molecular phylogeography and population structure of a mid-elevation montane frog Leptobrachium ailaonicum in a fragmented habitat of southwest China

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 47-58

  Zhang, Mingwang ^a,b   Rao, Dingqi ^a   Yang, Junxing ^a   Yu, Guohua ^a   Wilkinson, Jeffery A ^c  

^a KUNMING INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Conservation; Mitochondrial DNA; Orogeny; Pleistocene; Secondary contact; Vicariance

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CHINA; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; FROGS AND TOADS; GENE FLOW; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION GENETICS;

ANIMALS; ANURA; BAYES THEOREM; CHINA; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE FLOW; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPES; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ANURA; LEPTOBRACHIUM;

EID: 70649086965     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2009.10.019     Document Type: Article

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