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An adaptive radiation of frogs in a southeast Asian island archipelago.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Sept 2013
Blackburn David C, Siler Cameron D, Diesmos Arvin C, McGuire Jimmy A, Cannatella David C, Brown Rafe M
Abstract excerpt
Living amphibians exhibit a diversity of ecologies, life histories, and species-rich lineages that offers opportunities for studies of adaptive radiation. We characterize a diverse clade of frogs (Kaloula, Microhylidae) in the Philippine island archipelago as an example of an adaptive radiation into three primary habitat specialists or ecotypes. We use a novel phylogenetic estimate for this clade to evaluate the...
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