The discordance of diversification: Evolution in the tropical-montane frogs of the Eastern Arc Mountains of Tanzania

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 19, Issue 18, 2010, Pages 4046-4060

  Lawson, Lucinda P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Approximate Bayesian computation; comparative phylogeography; Eastern Arc Mountains; Ecological Niche Modelling; Hyperolius

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLIMATE; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOSYSTEM; FROGS AND TOADS; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; TANZANIA;

ANIMALS; ANURA; BAYES THEOREM; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GEOGRAPHY; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TANZANIA;

ANURA; HYPEROLIUS;

EID: 77956572312     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2010.04788.x     Document Type: Article

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