Female Size-specific Clutch Parameters of Two Closely Related Stream-breeding Frogs, Rana sakuraii and R. tagoi tagoi: Female Size-independent and Size-dependent Egg Sizes
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Cytonuclear discordance and historical demography of two brown frogs, Rana tagoi and R. sakuraii (Amphibia: Ranidae).
Prior studies of mitochondrial genomic variation reveal that the Japanese brown frog Rana tagoi comprises a complex of cryptic species lineages, and that R. sakuraii arose from within this complex. Neither species forms a monophyletic group on the mitochondrial haplotype tree, precluding a simple explanation for the evolutionary origins of R. sakuraii. We present a more complete sampling of mit...
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عنوان ژورنال: Current herpetology
سال: 2002
ISSN: 1881-1019,1345-5834
DOI: 10.5358/hsj.21.75