The 'True Frog' <i>Rana igorota</i> (IMAGE)

University of Kansas

The 'True Frog' <i>Rana igorota</i>

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To establish the actual timing of true frogs' diversification, Chan and Brown performed phylogenetic analysis of 402 genetic samples obtained from an online database called GenBank. These samples represented 292 of the known 380 true frog species in the world.

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Courtesy of Rafe Brown

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