Tropical Africa is home to an astonishing biodiversity occurring in a variety of ecosystems.
Past climatic change and geological events have impacted the evolution and diversification …

African clawed frogs, genus Xenopus, are extraordinary among vertebrates in the diversity of
their polyploid species and the high number of independent polyploidization events that …

Frogs in the genus Amnirana (family Ranidae) are widely distributed across sub-Saharan
Africa and present a model system for exploring the relationship between diversification and …

Organismal traits interact with environmental variation to mediate how species respond to
shared landscapes. Thus, differences in traits related to dispersal ability or physiological …

Aim To investigate how putative barriers, forest refugia, and ecological gradients across the
lower Guineo‐Congolian rain forest shape genetic and phenotypic divergence in the leaf …

Amphibian populations are vanishing worldwide. Declines and extinctions of many
populations have been attributed to chytridiomycosis, a disease induced by the pathogenic …

Abstract The Cameroon Volcanic Line, a mountain chain located between West and Central
Africa, is a region of numerous endemic diversifications, including of puddle frogs …

Aim Palaeoecological records indicate that Pleistocene glaciations affected the African rain
forest, probably causing its fragmentation, which could explain phylogeographical breaks …

Puddle frogs of the Phrynobatrachus steindachneri species complex are a useful group for
investigating speciation and phylogeography in Afromontane forests of the Cameroon …

The Madrean sky islands of North America, in southern Arizona and adjacent Sonora,
harbor a great diversity of vertebrates, but data about the distribution and abundance of …