Genetic diversification, vicariance, and selection in a polytypic frog

Journal of Heredity

Volumn 100, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 715-731

  Robertson, Jeanne M ^a,b   Zamudio, Kelly R ^a  

^a Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

Agalychnis; Biogeography; Color pattern; Costa Rica; Panama

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; COLOR VISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FROG; GENE FLOW; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DIFFERENTIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL SELECTION; VICARIANCE;

ANIMALS; ANURA; BASE SEQUENCE; BAYES THEOREM; COSTA RICA; DEMOGRAPHY; DNA PRIMERS; GENETIC VARIATION; HAPLOTYPES; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PANAMA; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PIGMENTATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SELECTION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

AGALYCHNIS; AGALYCHNIS CALLIDRYAS; ANURA; LITORIA CHLORIS;

EID: 71049187620     PISSN: 00221503     EISSN: 14657333     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jhered/esp041     Document Type: Article

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