Rapid diversification of colouration among populations of a poison frog isolated on sky peninsulas in the central cordilleras of Peru
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Aim Comparison of Epipedobates bassleri (Myers, 1987), which occurs on highaltitude mountain ridges (‘sky peninsulas’) in the Andean transition zone and demonstrates high levels of divergence in colouration among populations, and Epipedobates hahneli (Schulte, 1999), which occurs throughout the lowland regions of the Amazon basin and is morphologically conserved, using phylogenetic analysis of mitochondrial sequence data and comparison of colour pattern.
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تاریخ انتشار 2007