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| Phylogenetic systematics of dart-poison frogs and their relatives (Amphibia, Athesphatanura, Dendrobatidae). Bulletin of the AMNH ; no. 299 |
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| Title: | Phylogenetic systematics of dart-poison frogs and their relatives (Amphibia, Athesphatanura, Dendrobatidae). Bulletin of the AMNH ; no. 299 |
| Other Titles: | Phylogenetics of dart-poison frogs |
| Authors: | Grant, Taran. Frost, Darrel R. Caldwell, Janalee P. Gagliardo, Ron Haddad, Celio F.B. Kok, Philippe J.R. Means, D. Bruce Noonan, Brice P. Schargel, Walter E. Wheeler, Ward. |
| Issue Date: | 2006 |
| Publisher: | New York, NY : American Museum of Natural History |
| Series/Report no.: | Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, no. 299 |
| Abstract: | "The known diversity of dart-poison frog species has grown from 70 in the 1960s to 247 at present, with no sign that the discovery of new species will wane in the foreseeable future. Although this growth in knowledge of the diversity of this group has been accompanied by detailed investigations of many aspects of the biology of dendrobatids, their phylogenetic relationships remain poorly understood. This study was designed to test hypotheses of dendrobatid diversification by combining new and prior genotypic and phenotypic evidence in a total evidence analysis. DNA sequences were sampled for five mitochondrial and six nuclear loci (approximately 6,100 base pairs [bp]; å[arithmetic mean] = 53,740 bp per terminal; total dataset composed of approximately 1.55 million bp), and 174 phenotypic characters were scored from adult and larval morphology, alkaloid profiles, and behavior. These data were combined with relevant published DNA sequences. Ingroup sampling targeted several previously un... |
| Description: | 262 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 184-203). |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2246/5803 |
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