Small, specialised and highly mobile? the tree-hole breeding frog, phrynobatrachus guineensis, lacks fine-scale population structure

African Journal of Herpetology

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 79-94

  Sandberger, Laura ^a   Feldhaar, Heike ^b   Lampert, Kathrin P ^c   Lamatsch, Dunja K ^d   Rödel, Mark Oliver ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

^c RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^d ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

Author keywords

Amphibia; Anura; Microsatellites; Phrynobatrachidae; Phytotelmata; Population genetic structure; Rainforest; West Africa

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; PHRYNOBATRACHUS GUINEENSIS;

EID: 77955105823     PISSN: 21564574     EISSN: 21533660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/04416651003788619     Document Type: Article

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