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Geographic variation of genetic and behavioral traits in northern and southern tüngara frogs.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Aug 2006
Pröhl Heike, Koshy Regina A, Mueller Ulrich, Rand A Stanley, Ryan Michael J
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We use a combination of microsatellite marker analysis and mate-choice behavior experiments to assess patterns of reproductive isolation of the túngara frog Physalaemus pustulosus along a 550-km transect of 25 populations in Costa Rica and Panama. Earlier studies using allozymes and mitochondrial DNA defined two genetic groups of túngara frogs, one ranging from Mexico to northern Costa Rica (northern group), the...
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