Biogeographic origin and radiation of Cuban Eleutherodactylus frogs of the auriculatus species group, inferred from mitochondrial and nuclear gene sequences

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 179-186

  Rodríguez, Ariel ^a   Vences, Miguel ^b   Nevado, Bruno ^c   Machordom, Annie ^d   Verheyen, Erik ^c,e  

^a INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA Y SISTEMÁTICA   (Cuba)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^c ROYAL BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

^d MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Amphibia; Anura; Biogeography; Caribbean; Cryptic species; Cuba; Eleutherodactylus auriculatus; Molecular phylogeny

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CLASSIFICATION; CUBA; DNA SEQUENCE; FROGS AND TOADS; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

ANIMALS; ANURA; CELL NUCLEUS; CUBA; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC SPECIATION; GEOGRAPHY; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; ELEUTHERODACTYLUS AURICULATUS; MYA;

EID: 70849120356     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2009.08.023     Document Type: Article

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