The Great American Biotic Interchange in frogs: Multiple and early colonization of Central America by the South American genus Pristimantis (Anura: Craugastoridae)

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 954-972

  Pinto Sánchez, Nelsy Rocío ^a   Ibáñez, Roberto ^b,c   Madriñán, Santiago ^a   Sanjur, Oris I ^b   Bermingham, Eldredge ^b   Crawford, Andrew J ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES   (Colombia)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^c Círculo Herpetológico de Panamá ^*  (Panama)

Author keywords

Ancestral area reconstruction; DEC; Isthmus of Panama; Multi locus molecular phylogenetics; Terrarana

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; NUCLEAR PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ANURA; ARTICLE; CENTRAL AMERICA; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; ANURA; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CENTRAL AMERICA; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY;

ANIMALIA; ANURA; MAMMALIA; OLIGACANTHORHYNCHUS; RUBICUNDUS;

EID: 84856288840     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2011.11.022     Document Type: Article

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