Assembling the Amphibian Tree of Life
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Welcome to the AmphibiaTree website!
We've re-designed the website for 2009, and enhanced the "Recent Publications" functions.
These pages provide news from the community about recent research on amphibians. Users can add content such as posts about recent news items, literature, discussions, meetings, upcoming events, etc.
Vast underestimation of Madagascar's biodiversity evidenced by an integrative amphibian inventory
| Publication Type | Journal Article | |
| Year of Publication | 2009 | |
| Authors | Vieites, D. R.; Wollenberg, K. C.; Andreone, F.; Köhler, J.; Glaw, F.; Vences, M. | |
| Journal Title | Proc. National Acad. Sciences U.S.A. | |
| Volume | 106 | |
| Pages | 8267-8272 | |
| Journal Date | May 19 | |
| Key Words | Biodiversity; Amphibians; Frogs; DNA; mtDNA; Madagascar; Systematics; barcoding | |
| URL | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=19416818 |
Letter and Response--Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning: effects of the loss of salamander species richness
| Publication Type | Journal Article | |
| Year of Publication | 2009 | |
| Authors | Gamfeldt, L. | |
| Journal Title | Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences Of The United States Of America | |
| Volume | 106 | |
| Pages | E48 | |
| Journal Date | May 5 | |
| Key Words | Ecosystem; Extinction: Biological; Urodela; Biodiversity; Salamanders | |
| URL | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=19416915 |
Toward an organismal, integrative, and iterative phylogeography
| Publication Type | Journal Article | |
| Year of Publication | 2009 | |
| Authors | Buckley, D. | |
| Journal Title | BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology | |
| Volume | 31 | |
| Pages | 784-93 | |
| Journal Date | Jul 1 | |
| Key Words | Phylogeography; paradigms | |
| URL | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=19472366 |
Phylogenetic evidence for a major reversal of life-history evolution in plethodontid salamanders
| Publication Type | Journal Article | |
| Year of Publication | 2004 | |
| Authors | Chippindale, P. T.; Bonett, R. M.; Baldwin, A. S.; Wiens, J. J. | |
| Journal Title | Evolution; international journal of organic evolution | |
| Volume | 58 | |
| Pages | 2809-22 | |
| Journal Date | Dec 1 | |
| Key Words | Sequence Analysis: DNA; Fresh Water; Bayes Theorem; Metamorphosis: Biological; Adaptation: Physiological; Models: Genetic; North America; Likelihood Functions; DNA: Mitochondrial; Molecular Sequence Data; Phylogeny; Urodela; Base Sequence; Genes: RAG-1; E | |
| URL | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=15696758 |
Upward range extension of Andean anurans and chytridiomycosis to extreme elevations in response to tropical deglaciation
| Publication Type | Journal Article | |
| Year of Publication | 2007 | |
| Authors | Seimon, T.; Seimon, A.; Daszak, P.; Halloy, S.; Schloegel, L.; Aguilar, C.; Sowell, P.; Hyatt, A.; Konecky, B.; Simmons, J. E. | |
| Journal Title | Global Change Biology | |
| Volume | 13 | |
| Pages | 288-299 | |
| Journal Date | Jan 1 | |
| Key Words | Chytridomycosis; frogs; Andes |
Dispersal to or from an African biodiversity hotspot?
| Publication Type | Journal Article | |
| Year of Publication | 2009 | |
| Authors | Blackburn, D. C.; Measey, G. J. | |
| Journal Title | Molecular Ecology | |
| Volume | 18 | |
| Pages | 1904-1915 | |
| Journal Date | Jan 1 | |
| Key Words | Arthroleptis; frogs; Africa; phylogeography |
Why does a method that fails continue to be used? The answer
| Publication Type | Journal Article | |
| Year of Publication | 2009 | |
| Authors | Templeton, A. R. | |
| Journal Title | Evolution; international journal of organic evolution | |
| Volume | 63 | |
| Pages | 807-12 | |
| Journal Date | Apr 1 | |
| Key Words | NCPA; phylogeography; nested clade; phylogenetics | |
| URL | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=19335340 |
Replicate patterns of species richness, historical biogeography, and phylogeny in Holarctic treefrogs
| Publication Type | Journal Article | |
| Year of Publication | 2005 | |
| Authors | Smith, Sarah A.; Stephens, Patrick R.; Wiens, J. J. | |
| Journal Title | Evolution | |
| Volume | 59 | |
| Pages | 2433-2450 | |
| Key Words | Hylidae; biogeography; frogs; phylogeny |
Closing the ring: historical biogeography of the salamander ring species Ensatina eschscholtzii
| Publication Type | Journal Article | |
| Year of Publication | 2009 | |
| Authors | Kuchta, S.; Parks, D.; Mueller, R. L.; Wake, D. | |
| Journal Title | Journal of Biogeography | |
| Volume | 36 | |
| Pages | 982-995 | |
| Journal Date | Jan 1 |
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