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Genetic relationships among salamanders of the genus Hynobius (Amphibia, Caudata) from Korea and southwestern Japan.
Zoological science - 1 Nov 2007
Kim Jong-Bum, Matsui Masafumi, Nishikawa Kanto
Abstract excerpt
We performed allozyme analysis for three Korean (Hynobius leechii, H. quelpaertensis, and H. yangi) and three Japanese (H. nebulosus, H. tsuensis, and H. dunni) salamanders to clarify their interspecific relationships using H. naevius as an outgroup. The genetic distances (Nei's D) within ingroup species ranged from 0.11 to 0.78 with a mean of 0.33. In the NJ and CONTML trees, monophyly of the ingroup was not...
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