Gradual adaptation toward a range-expansion phenotype initiated the global radiation of toads

Science

Volumn 327, Issue 5966, 2010, Pages 679-682

  Van Bocxlaer, Ines ^a   Loader, Simon P ^b   Roelants, Kim ^a   Biju, S D ^a,c   Menegon, Michele ^d   Bossuyt, Franky ^a  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

^d MUSEO TRIDENTINO DI SCIENZE NATURALI   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; COLONIZATION; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; INVASIVE SPECIES; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PHYLOGENETICS; RANGE EXPANSION; TOAD;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; COLONIAL SPECIES; EVOLUTION; GENETIC TRAIT; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION; TOAD;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; AFRICA; ANIMALS; ASIA; AUSTRALIA; BAYES THEOREM; BUFONIDAE; EVOLUTION; GENETIC SPECIATION; GEOGRAPHY; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION; SOUTH AMERICA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ANURA; BUFO MARINUS; BUFONIDAE;

EID: 76249102483     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1181707     Document Type: Article

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