Novel relationships among hyloid frogs inferred from 12S and 16S mitochondrial DNA sequences

Phylogeny and biogeography of paradoxical frogs (Anura, Hylidae, Pseudae) inferred from 12S and 16S mitochondrial DNA

“…da Silva's (1998) morphological phylogenetic analysis placed pseudids within Hylidae, and subsequent mitochondrial and nuclear DNA phylogenies have strongly supported this arrangement (Darst and Cannatella, 2004;Faivovich et al, 2005;Hoegg et al, 2004;Wiens et al, 2005). However, the newest taxonomies (Faivovich et al, 2005;Frost et al, 2006) abandoned the names Pseudinae or Pseudidae because they render the more inclusive rank name (Hylidae or Hylinae) paraphyletic.…”

“…We also included five sequences from Argentine populations (Faivovich et al, 2005) and one from an additional Brazilian population (Darst and Cannatella, 2004) from GenBank. Morphological and molecular phylogenetic reconstructions consistently recovered Scarthyla goinorum as the sister group to Pseudis and Lysapsus (da Silva, 1998;Darst and Cannatella, 2004;Faivovich et al, 2005;Wiens et al, 2005), and therefore we included two S. goinorum sequences from GenBank as outgroups. Museum numbers, field numbers, and localities are listed in Table 1, and localities where samples were collected appear in Fig.…”

Systematic relationships of Oriental tiny frogs of the family Microhylidae (Amphibia, Anura) as revealed by mtDNA genealogy

“…Thus, the available common region is very limited as exemplified in Fig. 2, which could be constructed using only 309 bp of 16S rRNA partial sequences that were comparable among GenBank data (Darst and Cannatella, 2004;Frost et al, 2006;Blackburn, 2008;Wollenberg et al, 2008;Köhler and Günther, 2008;Funk and Cannatella, 2009;Vences et al, 2010). As shown in the figure, basal resolution was chaotic and supports for terminal branches were also very weak.…”

Cenozoic biogeography and evolution in direct-developing frogs of Central America (Leptodactylidae: Eleutherodactylus) as inferred from a phylogenetic analysis of nuclear and mitochondrial genes

“…Within Central America, therefore, one may find Eleutherodactylus from three subgenera. Darst and Cannatella (2004) found molecular phylogenetic evidence that the genus Eleutherodactylus may be polyphyletic. Although taxonomic sampling was limited, their optimal reconstructions suggested that the sister group to Craugastor could be Brachycephalus from the southern Atlantic rainforests of Brazil, and the Andean genus Phrynopus could be the sister group to either the subgenus Euhyas or to the subgenus Eleutherodactylus.…”

“…Few morphological characters are informative for parsimony analysis of interspecific relationships within this diverse genus (Lynch, 1986(Lynch, , 2000Lynch and Duellman, 1997). Besides the three samples included in the study by Darst and Cannatella (2004), the only previous molecular phylogenetic studies of Central American Eleutherodactylus used allozyme data to investigate relationships within species groups (Miyamoto, 1983(Miyamoto, , 1984(Miyamoto, , 1986, and the conclusions we feel were hampered by inadequate sampling within species or within populations. Therefore, further DNA sequence data are crucial to advancing our understanding of this group.…”