Restricted natural hybridization between two species of litter frogs on a threatened landscape in southwestern Brazilian Amazonia

Conservation Genetics

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1145-1159

  Simões, Pedro Ivo ^a   Lima, Albertina P ^a   Farias, Izeni P ^b  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF AMAZONAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Allobates femoralis; Amazon; Dendrobatidae; Genetic introgression; Hybrid zone; Madeira River

Indexed keywords

ALLOPATRY; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; DAM; FROG; GENE FLOW; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; HYBRID ZONE; HYBRIDIZATION; INTROGRESSION; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; NEOTROPICAL REGION; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION STRUCTURE; REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATION; RIVER BANK;

BRAZIL; MADEIRA RIVER; RONDONIA;

ANURA; DENDROBATIDAE; EPIPEDOBATES; EPIPEDOBATES FEMORALIS;

EID: 84864307044     PISSN: 15660621     EISSN: 15729737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10592-012-0362-x     Document Type: Article

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