The Rift Valley is a major barrier to dispersal of African clawed frogs (Xenopus) in Ethiopia

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 20, Issue 20, 2011, Pages 4216-4230

  Evans, Ben J ^a   Bliss, Shireen M ^a   Mendel, Simone A ^a   Tinsley, Richard C ^b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

coalescence; demography; endemicity; migration; vicariance

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COALESCENCE; DEMOGRAPHY; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ETHIOPIA; GENETICS; MIGRATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; VICARIANCE; XENOPUS;

COALESCENCE; DEMOGRAPHY; ENDEMICITY; MIGRATION; VICARIANCE;

ANIMALS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ETHIOPIA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC SPECIATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; XENOPUS;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; XENOPUS CLIVII; XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS LARGENI;

EID: 80053953446     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2011.05262.x     Document Type: Article

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