Origin of invasive Florida frogs traced to Cuba

Biology Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 407-410

  Heinicke, Matthew P ^a,c   Diaz, Luis M ^b   Hedges, S Blair ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Museo Nacional de Historia Natural Cuba   (Cuba)

^c VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amphibia; Dispersal; Introduction; Invasive species; Phylogenetics

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ADAPTATION; COLONIZATION; DISPERSAL; FROG; GREENHOUSE ECOSYSTEM; INTRODUCED SPECIES; INVASIVE SPECIES; PHYLOGENETICS; STEPPE; SUBTROPICAL REGION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CUBA; FROGS AND TOADS; GENE; GENETICS; INTRODUCED SPECIES; PHYLOGENY; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; ANURA; CUBA; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FLORIDA; GENES, RAG-1; INTRODUCED SPECIES; PHYLOGENY;

CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; CUBA; FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; ELEUTHERODACTYLUS PLANIROSTRIS; OSTEOPILUS; OSTEOPILUS SEPTENTRIONALIS;

EID: 79957666611     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2010.1131     Document Type: Article

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