Assembly of the eastern North American herpetofauna: new evidence from lizards and frogs
Darwin first recognized the importance of episodic intercontinental dispersal in the establishment of worldwide biotic diversity. Faunal exchange across the Bering Land Bridge is a major example of such dispersal. Here, we demonstrate with mitochondrial DNA evidence that three independent dispersal...
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ftpubmed:oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:1686176 2023-05-15T15:42:38+02:00 Assembly of the eastern North American herpetofauna: new evidence from lizards and frogs Robert Macey, J Schulte, James A Strasburg, Jared L Brisson, Jennifer A Larson, Allan Ananjeva, Natalia B Wang, Yuezhao Parham, James F Papenfuss, Theodore J 2006-05-02 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1686176 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17148411 https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2006.0473 en eng The Royal Society http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1686176 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17148411 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2006.0473 © 2006 The Royal Society Research Article Text 2006 ftpubmed https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2006.0473 2013-08-31T12:20:06Z Darwin first recognized the importance of episodic intercontinental dispersal in the establishment of worldwide biotic diversity. Faunal exchange across the Bering Land Bridge is a major example of such dispersal. Here, we demonstrate with mitochondrial DNA evidence that three independent dispersal events from Asia to North America are the source for almost all lizard taxa found in continental eastern North America. Two other dispersal events across Beringia account for observed diversity among North American ranid frogs, one of the most species-rich groups of frogs in eastern North America. The contribution of faunal elements from Asia via dispersal across Beringia is a dominant theme in the historical assembly of the eastern North American herpetofauna. Text Bering Land Bridge Beringia PubMed Central (PMC) Biology Letters 2 3 388 392 |
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Darwin first recognized the importance of episodic intercontinental dispersal in the establishment of worldwide biotic diversity. Faunal exchange across the Bering Land Bridge is a major example of such dispersal. Here, we demonstrate with mitochondrial DNA evidence that three independent dispersal events from Asia to North America are the source for almost all lizard taxa found in continental eastern North America. Two other dispersal events across Beringia account for observed diversity among North American ranid frogs, one of the most species-rich groups of frogs in eastern North America. The contribution of faunal elements from Asia via dispersal across Beringia is a dominant theme in the historical assembly of the eastern North American herpetofauna. |
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Assembly of the eastern North American herpetofauna: new evidence from lizards and frogs |
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Assembly of the eastern North American herpetofauna: new evidence from lizards and frogs |
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Assembly of the eastern North American herpetofauna: new evidence from lizards and frogs |
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Assembly of the eastern North American herpetofauna: new evidence from lizards and frogs |
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Assembly of the eastern North American herpetofauna: new evidence from lizards and frogs |
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