Most detailed and comprehensive family tree to date of frogs created using molecular data. Researchers, including Jeff Streicher, Senior Curator in Charge, Amphibians and Reptiles at the Natural History Museum, London, have unveiled the most extensive evolutionary tree of frogs (anuran amphibians
A groundbreaking study presents the most exhaustive frog evolutionary tree, spanning 5,242 species. The research proposes a revised timeline for frog evolution and introduces innovative software, offering insights and methodologies applicable to other organisms. This photograph shows a Vietnamese Mossy Frog .
Frogs, with their diverse natural histories, have always been a subject of fascination for biologists and nature enthusiasts alike. However, previous attempts to create comprehensive phylogenies for these creatures were limited by the types of genetic data being used.
Dan Portik, lead author adds, “Here not only have we increased the data that the frog phylogenetic tree draws upon but we also developed new software to help improve those data.”The researchers developed software to make it easier to compare genes that evolve large differences between species.
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