| relicts of a forested past: southernmost distribution of the hairy frog genus trichobatrachus boulenger, 1900 (anura: arthroleptidae) in the serra do pingano region of angola with comments on its taxonomic status. | the monotypic genus trichobatrachus, with its sole representative, the hairy frog, trichobatrachus robustus boulenger, 1900, could be considered one of the most well-known frogs of africa. despite its broad recognition and the fact that it is considered wide-spread and locally common (amiet & burger 2004), surprisingly little is known about the actual distribution and the specific occurrence patterns of the species. it was originally described by boulenger (1900) from the benito river, previousl ... | 2014 | 24871726 |
| afrobatrachian mitochondrial genomes: genome reorganization, gene rearrangement mechanisms, and evolutionary trends of duplicated and rearranged genes. | mitochondrial genomic (mitogenomic) reorganizations are rarely found in closely-related animals, yet drastic reorganizations have been found in the ranoides frogs. the phylogenetic relationships of the three major ranoid taxa (natatanura, microhylidae, and afrobatrachia) have been problematic, and mitogenomic information for afrobatrachians has not been available. several molecular models for mitochondrial (mt) gene rearrangements have been proposed, but observational evidence has been insuffici ... | 2013 | 24053406 |