Evidence for evolutionary distinctiveness of a newly discovered population of sooglossid frogs on Praslin Island, Seychelles

Conservation Genetics

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 557-566

  Taylor, Michele L ^a   Bunbury, Nancy ^b   Chong Seng, Lindsay ^b   Doak, Naomi ^b   Kundu, Samit ^a   Griffiths, Richard A ^a   Groombridge, Jim J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^b SEYCHELLES ISLANDS FOUNDATION   (Seychelles)

Author keywords

16S rRNA; Endemic; Frog; Molecular phylogeny; Seychelles; Sooglossidae

Indexed keywords

DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ENDEMIC SPECIES; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FROG; GENETIC VARIATION; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; MORPHOLOGY; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; SAMPLING;

PRASLIN; SEYCHELLES;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; SOOGLOSSIDAE; SOOGLOSSUS;

EID: 84858002829     PISSN: 15660621     EISSN: 15729737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10592-011-0307-9     Document Type: Article

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