Diversification in a biodiversity hot spot: Landscape correlates of phylogeographic patterns in the African spotted reed frog

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1947-1960

  Lawson, Lucinda P ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

amphibian; Eastern Arc Mountains; Hyperolius; landscape genetics; phylogeography; population genetics

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AFRICA; ANIMAL; ANURA; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOSYSTEM; GENE FLOW; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

AFRICA, EASTERN; ANIMALS; ANURA; BIODIVERSITY; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE FLOW; GENETIC VARIATION; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; HYPEROLIUS; HYPEROLIUS PUNCTICULATUS;

EID: 84875367921     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mec.12229     Document Type: Article

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