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| Title |
The first endemic West African vertebrate family – a new anuran family highlighting the uniqueness of the Upper Guinean biodiversity hotspot
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| Published in |
Frontiers in Zoology, February 2014
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| DOI | 10.1186/1742-9994-11-8 |
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| Authors |
Michael F Barej, Andreas Schmitz, Rainer Günther, Simon P Loader, Kristin Mahlow, Mark-Oliver Rödel |
| Abstract |
Higher-level systematics in amphibians is relatively stable. However, recent phylogenetic studies of African torrent-frogs have uncovered high divergence in these phenotypically and ecologically similar frogs, in particular between West African torrent-frogs versus Central (Petropedetes) and East African (Arthroleptides and Ericabatrachus) lineages. Because of the considerable molecular divergence, and external morphology of the single West African torrent-frog species a new genus was erected (Odontobatrachus). In this study we aim to clarify the systematic position of West African torrent-frogs (Odontobatrachus). We determine the relationships of torrent-frogs using a multi-locus, nuclear and mitochondrial, dataset and include genera of all African and Asian ranoid families. Using micro-tomographic scanning we examine osteology and external morphological features of West African torrent-frogs to compare them with other ranoids. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 4 | 27% |
| United Kingdom | 3 | 20% |
| Italy | 1 | 7% |
| Malaysia | 1 | 7% |
| Germany | 1 | 7% |
| Australia | 1 | 7% |
| Colombia | 1 | 7% |
| Unknown | 3 | 20% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 11 | 73% |
| Scientists | 4 | 27% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 96 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Germany | 2 | 2% |
| United States | 2 | 2% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1% |
| France | 1 | 1% |
| Brazil | 1 | 1% |
| Italy | 1 | 1% |
| Argentina | 1 | 1% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 86 | 90% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 18 | 19% |
| Researcher | 15 | 16% |
| Student > Bachelor | 11 | 11% |
| Student > Master | 11 | 11% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 5 | 5% |
| Other | 17 | 18% |
| Unknown | 19 | 20% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 53 | 55% |
| Environmental Science | 11 | 11% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 4 | 4% |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | 4 | 4% |
| Unspecified | 1 | 1% |
| Other | 4 | 4% |
| Unknown | 19 | 20% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 37. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 16 November 2023.
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#11,959
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#3
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