# 编者信息 熊荣川 明湖实验室 xiongrongchuan@126.com http://blog.sciencenet.cn/u/Bearjazz Several methods have been developed to construct phylogenetic trees. In general these methods can be divided into two distinct cl ...
# 编者信息 熊荣川 明湖实验室 xiongrongchuan@126.com http://blog.sciencenet.cn/u/Bearjazz A different situation is that of oceanic islands that never had physical contact to other landmasses. These are of comple ...
# 编者信息 熊荣川 明湖实验室 xiongrongchuan@126.com http://blog.sciencenet.cn/u/Bearjazz Amphibians are widespread on many archipelagos, for instance on the Philippines and in the Sunda, Caribbean and Pacific regions. Some of ...
# 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 Difficulties in detecting convergent ecomorphs without the use of molecular data are particularly pervasive in anuran amphibians because thei ...
# 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 Tadpoles, the premetamorphic life stage of many frogs and toads, play a key role in anuran biology, and are the focus of various aspects of anuran research (McDiarmid ...