Are islands the end of the colonization road?

E Bellemain, RE Ricklefs - Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2008‏ - cell.com
Ecologists have, up to now, widely regarded colonization of islands from continents as a one-
way journey, mainly because of widely accepted assertions that less diverse island …

[HTML][HTML] Phylogenetics, classification, and biogeography of the treefrogs (Amphibia: Anura: Arboranae)

WE Duellman, AB Marion, SB Hedges - Zootaxa, 2016‏ - mapress.com
A phylogenetic analysis of sequences from 503 species of hylid frogs and four outgroup taxa
resulted in 16,128 aligned sites of 19 genes. The molecular data were subjected to a …

Biogeographic analysis reveals ancient continental vicariance and recent oceanic dispersal in amphibians

RA Pyron - Systematic biology, 2014‏ - academic.oup.com
Amphibia comprises over 7000 extant species distributed in almost every ecosystem on
every continent except Antarctica. Most species also show high specificity for particular …

[HTML][HTML] Molecular systematics of terraranas (Anura: Brachycephaloidea) with an assessment of the effects of alignment and optimality criteria

JM Padial, T Grant, DR Frost - Zootaxa, 2014‏ - biotaxa.org
Brachycephaloidea is a monophyletic group of frogs with more than 1000 species
distributed throughout the New World tropics, subtropics, and Andean regions. Recently, the …

[HTML][HTML] New World direct-develo** frogs (Anura: Terrarana): molecular phylogeny, classification, biogeography, and conservation

SB Hedges, WE Duellman, MP Heinicke - Zootaxa, 2008‏ - biotaxa.org
New World frogs recently placed in a single, enormous family (Brachycephalidae) have
direct development and reproduce on land, often far away from water. DNA sequences from …

Developmental diversity of amphibians

RP Elinson, EM del Pino - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews …, 2012‏ - Wiley Online Library
The current model amphibian, Xenopus laevis, develops rapidly in water to a tadpole which
metamorphoses into a frog. Many amphibians deviate from the X. laevis developmental …

[كتاب][B] Libro rojo de la fauna venezolana

JP Rodríguez, F Rojas-Suárez - 1995‏ - researchgate.net
Somos una fundación empresarial patrocinada únicamente por Empresas Polar, dedicada a
programas de utilidad colectiva e interés general con el fin de instalar capacidades en la …

Spiny frogs (Paini) illuminate the history of the Himalayan region and Southeast Asia

J Che, WW Zhou, JS Hu, F Yan… - Proceedings of the …, 2010‏ - National Acad Sciences
Asian frogs of the tribe Paini (Anura: Dicroglossidae) range across several first-order tectono-
morphological domains of the Cenozoic Indo-Asian collision that include the Tibetan …

[HTML][HTML] A new skink fauna from Caribbean islands (Squamata, Mabuyidae, Mabuyinae)

SB Hedges, CE Conn - Zootaxa, 2012‏ - mapress.com
Neotropical skinks are unique among lizards and other vertebrates in their degree of
convergence, in reproductive traits, with eutherian mammals. They have also been famously …

Global patterns of amphibian phylogenetic diversity

SA Fritz, C Rahbek - Journal of biogeography, 2012‏ - Wiley Online Library
Aim Phylogenetic diversity can provide insight into how evolutionary processes may have
shaped contemporary patterns of species richness. Here, we aim to test for the influence of …