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Phylogeography and historical demography of Polypedates leucomystax in the islands of Indonesia and the Philippines: evidence for recent human-mediated range expansion?
Molecular phylogenetics and evolution - 1 Nov 2010
Brown Rafe M, Linkem Charles W, Siler Cameron D, Sukumaran Jeet, Esselstyn Jacob A, Diesmos Arvin C, Iskandar Djoko T, Bickford David, Evans Ben J, McGuire Jimmy A, Grismer Lee, Supriatna Jatna, Andayani Noviar
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Southeast Asia's widespread species offer unique opportunities to explore the effects of geographical barriers to dispersal on patterns of vertebrate lineage diversification. We analyzed mitochondrial gene sequences (16S rDNA) from a geographically widespread sample of 266 Southeast Asian tree frogs, including 244 individuals of Polypedates leucomystax and its close relatives. Our expectation was that lineages on...
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