# 编者信息 熊荣川 明湖实验室 xiongrongchuan@126.com http://blog.sciencenet.cn/u/Bearjazz Amphibians are a key group in historical biogeography because they are often thought to be unable to disperse over saltwater b ...
# 编者信息 熊荣川 明湖实验室 xiongrongchuan@126.com http://blog.sciencenet.cn/u/Bearjazz Given the low dispersal abilities of amphibians over salty environments, tectonic movements, as well as sea-level changes, might have been o ...
# 编者信息 熊荣川 明湖实验室 xiongrongchuan@126.com http://blog.sciencenet.cn/u/Bearjazz Ranid frogs form a nearly cosmopolitan family containing roughly 1,000 species, i.e., about one-fifth of all living Amphibia. Specific morphologi ...
# 编者信息 熊荣川 明湖实验室 xiongrongchuan@126.com http://blog.sciencenet.cn/u/Bearjazz Ever since Darwin (1), Huxley (2), and Simpson (3), adaptive radiation (4) has been used as a major concept in evolutionary biology. In this context, converge ...
# 编者信息 熊荣川 明湖实验室 xiongrongchuan@126.com http://blog.sciencenet.cn/u/Bearjazz All these factors underline the importance of tadpole research and at the same time may demonstrate that anuran larvae are, to a certain extent, the “Achilles’ heel” of amph ...
#编者信息 熊荣川 明湖实验室 xiongrongchuan@126.com http://blog.sciencenet.cn/u/Bearjazz Mitochondrial cytochrome b (cytb) is among the most extensively sequenced genes to date across the vertebrates. Here, we employ nearly 2,000 cytb gene sequences from GenBank to calculat ...
# 编者信息 熊荣川 明湖实验室 xiongrongchuan@126.com http://blog.sciencenet.cn/u/Bearjazz King and Wilson (1) inferred from this and other evidence that structural gene evolution and morphological evolution may proceed at independe ...
# 编者信息 熊荣川 明湖实验室 xiongrongchuan@126.com http://blog.sciencenet.cn/u/Bearjazz Biochemistry and morphology give us contrasting views of the difference between humans and chimpanzees. Biochemical comparisons made with proteins and n ...
# 编者信息 熊荣川 明湖实验室 xiongrongchuan@126.com http://blog.sciencenet.cn/u/Bearjazz The body shapes of humans and chimpanzees were compared quantitatively by criteria chosen for their capacity to discriminate well among the body shapes of frogs. By these cr ...