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Ancestral reconstruction of reproductive traits shows no tendency toward terrestriality in leptodactyline frogs

BACKGROUND: Traditionally, the evolution of terrestrial reproduction in anurans from ancestors that bred in water has been accepted in the literature. Still, the existence of intermediate stages of water dependency, such as species that lay eggs close to water (e.g., in burrows) instead of in bodies...

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Autores principales: Pereira, Elisa Barreto, Collevatti, Rosane Garcia, Kokubum, Marcelo Nogueira de Carvalho, Miranda, Núbia Esther de Oliveira, Maciel, Natan Medeiros
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4437749/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25987435
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12862-015-0365-6