Late Cretaceous vicariance in Gondwanan amphibians.

Overseas dispersals are often invoked when Southern Hemisphere terrestrial and freshwater organism phylogenies do not fit the sequence or timing of Gondwana fragmentation. We used dispersal-vicariance analyses and molecular timetrees to show that two species-rich frog groups, Microhylidae and Natata...

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Main Authors: Ines Van Bocxlaer, Kim Roelants, S D Biju, J Nagaraju, Franky Bossuyt
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2006-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC1762348?pdf=render