TY - JOUR
T1 - An expanded phylogeny of treefrogs (Hylidae) based on nuclear and mitochondrial sequence data
AU - Wiens, John J.
AU - Kuczynski, Caitlin A.
AU - Hua, Xia
AU - Moen, Daniel S.
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank the many individuals and institutions who provided tissue samples that were used in this and our previous phylogenetic analyses of hylids, including J. Campbell and E. Smith (Univ. Texas, Arlington), W.R. Heyer and K. de Queiroz (U.S. National Museum), E. Greenbaum, W.E. Duellman and J. Simmons (Univ. Kansas), S.B. Hedges, K. Lips, I. De La Riva, A. Nieto Montes de Oca, B.P. Noonan, T.W. Reeder, J. Skejic, and D. Wake (Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, Univ. California, Berkeley). We thank A. Kathriner for assistance in the laboratory. We are grateful to our collaborators on previous papers on hylid phylogeny, who provided tissues and sequence data, including W.E. Duellman, C. Fu, I. Gomez-Mestre, J. Li, T.W. Reeder, and S. Smith. We thank A. Nieto Montes de Oca and T.W. Reeder for assistance with fieldwork in Mexico, which was supported by grants from the Netting and O’Neill funds of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. For financial support we thank U.S. National Science Foundation Grant ( EF 0334923 ) to J.J.W. and a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship to D.S.M. We thank J. Schulte and two anonymous reviewers for comments on the manuscript.
PY - 2010/6
Y1 - 2010/6
N2 - The treefrogs (Hylidae) make up one of the most species-rich families of amphibians. With 885 species currently described, they contain >13% of all amphibian species. In recent years, there has been considerable progress in resolving hylid phylogeny. However, the most comprehensive phylogeny to date (Wiens et al., 2006) included only 292 species, was based only on parsimony, provided only poor support for most higher-level relationships, and conflicted with previous hypotheses in several parts (including the monophyly and relationships of major clades of Hylinae). Here, we present an expanded phylogeny for hylid frogs, including data for 362 hylid taxa for up to 11 genes (4 mitochondrial, 7 nuclear), including 70 additional taxa and >270 sequences not included in the previously most comprehensive analysis. The new tree from maximum likelihood analysis is more well-resolved, strongly supported, and concordant with previous hypotheses, and provides a framework for future systematic, biogeographic, ecological, and evolutionary studies.
AB - The treefrogs (Hylidae) make up one of the most species-rich families of amphibians. With 885 species currently described, they contain >13% of all amphibian species. In recent years, there has been considerable progress in resolving hylid phylogeny. However, the most comprehensive phylogeny to date (Wiens et al., 2006) included only 292 species, was based only on parsimony, provided only poor support for most higher-level relationships, and conflicted with previous hypotheses in several parts (including the monophyly and relationships of major clades of Hylinae). Here, we present an expanded phylogeny for hylid frogs, including data for 362 hylid taxa for up to 11 genes (4 mitochondrial, 7 nuclear), including 70 additional taxa and >270 sequences not included in the previously most comprehensive analysis. The new tree from maximum likelihood analysis is more well-resolved, strongly supported, and concordant with previous hypotheses, and provides a framework for future systematic, biogeographic, ecological, and evolutionary studies.
KW - Amphibians
KW - Anura
KW - Hylidae
KW - Mitochondrial DNA
KW - Nuclear DNA
KW - Phylogeny
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U2 - 10.1016/j.ympev.2010.03.013
DO - 10.1016/j.ympev.2010.03.013
M3 - Article
C2 - 20304077
AN - SCOPUS:77953135155
SN - 1055-7903
VL - 55
SP - 871
EP - 882
JO - Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
JF - Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
IS - 3
ER -