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Phylogeography of Bufo marinus from its natural and introduced ranges.
Proceedings. Biological sciences - 7 May 1998
Slade R W, Moritz C
Abstract excerpt
The marine toad, Bufo marinus, has a broad natural distribution extending from the south-west of the USA to southern Peru and the central Amazon. It was introduced to several localities in the Caribbean and Pacific Oceans to control sugar cane pests. We sequenced 468 bp of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) containing the ND3 gene, and flanking tRNA genes from toads spanning the broad natural and introduced ranges....
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