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Mitochondrial phylogeography of the moor frog, Rana arvalis.
Molecular ecology - 1 Jun 2004
Babik W, Branicki W, Sandera M, Litvinchuk S, Borkin L J, Irwin J T, Rafiński J
Abstract excerpt
The moor frog Rana arvalis is a lowland species with a broad Eurasiatic distribution, from arctic tundra through forest to the steppe zone. Its present-day range suggests that glacial refugia of this frog were located outside southern European peninsulas. We studied the species-wide phylogeographical pattern using sequence variation in a 682 base pairs fragment of mtDNA cytochrome b gene; 223 individuals from 73...
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