Conservation genetics of endemic Indirana frogs of the Western Ghats biodiversity hotspot

摘要: 6 Introduction 7 Amphibian diversity and conservation status in the Western Ghats In focus: Indirana 8 Aims of this thesis 9 Materials Methods 10 Study species populations Molecular markers genetic methods Infectious disease screening 11 Results Discussion Basic information Cryptic lineages within Cross-species amplification test 14 Genetic structure cf beddomii 15 diseases 17 Conclusions future directions Acknowledgements 19 References 20 This is based on following articles which are referred to text by their Roman numerals: I Nair, A., Gopalan, S. V., George, S., Kumar, K. Teacher, A. G. F., & Merila, J. (2012) Endemic frogs biodiversity hotspot. Annales Zoologici Fennici 49: 257-286. II High cryptic endemic Animal Conservation 15: 489-498. doi:10.1111/j.1469-1795.2012.00539.x. III Li, M--H., Leder, E. H., (2011) Sixty-two new microsatellite for an frog from Genetics Resources 3: 167-171. IV testing utility loci frogs. BMC Research Notes 5: 389. doi:10.1186/1756-0500-5-389. V Shikano, T., variation differentiation Genetics. doi:10.1007/s10592-012-0389-z. VI Daniel O., J., F. Herpetological Review 42: 554-557.