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| The amphibian tree of life. Bulletin of the AMNH ; no. 297 |
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| Title: | The amphibian tree of life. Bulletin of the AMNH ; no. 297 |
| Authors: | Frost, Darrel R. Grant, Taran. Faivovich, Julián. Bain, Raoul H. Haas, Alexander. Haddad, Celio F. B. De Sa, Rafael O. Channing, A. Wilkinson, Mark. Donnellan, Stephen C. Raxworthy, Christopher J. Campbell, Jonathan A. Blotto, Boris L. Moler, Paul. Drewes, Robert C. Nussbaum, Ronald A. Lynch, John D. Green, David M. Wheeler, Ward C. |
| Issue Date: | 2006 |
| Publisher: | New York, NY : American Museum of Natural History |
| Series/Report no.: | Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History ; no. 297 |
| Abstract: | "The evidentiary basis of the currently accepted classification of living amphibians is discussed and shown not to warrant the degree of authority conferred on it by use and tradition. A new taxonomy of living amphibians is proposed to correct the deficiencies of the old one. This new taxonomy is based on the largest phylogenetic analysis of living Amphibia so far accomplished. We combined the comparative anatomical character evidence of Haas (2003) with DNA sequences from the mitochondrial transcription unit H1 (12S and 16S ribosomal RNA and tRNA[superscript Valine] genes, [approximately equal to] 2,400 bp of mitochondrial sequences) and the nuclear genes histone H3, rhodopsin, tyrosinase, and seven in absentia, and the large ribosomal subunit 28S ([approximately equal to] 2,300 bp of nuclear sequences; ca. 1.8 million base pairs; x [arithmetic mean] = 3.7 kb/terminal). The dataset includes 532 terminals sampled from 522 species representative of the global diversity of amphibians as ... |
| Description: | 370 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill. ; 26 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-291). |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2246/5781 |
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