Persistence in peripheral refugia promotes phenotypic divergence and speciation in a rainforest frog

American Naturalist

Volumn 178, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 561-578

  Hoskin, Conrad J ^a,b   Tonione, Maria ^c   Higgie, Megan ^a,b   Mackenzie, Jason B ^c,d   Williams, Stephen E ^b   VanDerWal, Jeremy ^b   Moritz, Craig ^c  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d THE NATURE CONSERVANCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Contact zone; Cophixalus; Mating traits; Morphology; Pleistocene refugia; Wet tropics

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; RNA 16S;

ADAPTATION; CLIMATE VARIATION; CONTACT ZONE; DIVERGENCE; FOSSIL RECORD; FROG; ISOLATED POPULATION; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MORPHOLOGY; NATURAL SELECTION; PALEOCLIMATE; PERIPHERAL REGION; PERSISTENCE; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; QUATERNARY; RAINFOREST; REFUGIUM; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); ZOOGEOGRAPHY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL NUCLEUS; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; FROGS AND TOADS; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; MALE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATION; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; ANURA; CELL NUCLEUS; CLIMATE CHANGE; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; GENETIC SPECIATION; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUEENSLAND; REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

AUSTRALIA;

ANURA; COPHIXALUS; COPHIXALUS ORNATUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 80054889846     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/662164     Document Type: Article

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