{"id":1318,"date":"2018-12-20T04:58:45","date_gmt":"2018-12-20T04:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/zoo\/?p=1318"},"modified":"2018-12-27T05:33:11","modified_gmt":"2018-12-27T05:33:11","slug":"systematic-revision-of-microhyla-microhylidae-frogs-of-south-asia-a-molecular-morphological-and-acoustic-assessment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/zoo\/2018\/12\/20\/systematic-revision-of-microhyla-microhylidae-frogs-of-south-asia-a-molecular-morphological-and-acoustic-assessment\/","title":{"rendered":"Systematic revision of Microhyla (Microhylidae) frogs of South Asia: a molecular, morphological, and acoustic assessment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Authors: Sonali Garg, Robin Suyesh, Abhijit Das, JiaTang Li,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/zoo\/academic-staff\/dr-nayana-wijayathilaka\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nayana Wijayathilaka<\/a>, A. A. Thasun Amarasinghe, Farits\u00a0Alhadi, Kumar K Vineeth, N.A. Aravind, Gayani Senevirathne, Madhava Meegaskumbura, SD Biju.<\/p>\n<p>Journal:\u00a0<i>Vertebrate Zoology<\/i><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"fbPhotoSnowliftCaption\" class=\"fbPhotosPhotoCaption\"><span class=\"hasCaption\">This study presents a systematic revision of South Asian members of the taxonomically challenging genus Microhyla Tschudi, 1838. Species relationships and diagnostic characters are determined by integrating molecular, morphological, and acoustic approaches, through which we also recognize six groups of closely related species. In addition, a new species from the southern Western Ghats of India is formally described as Microhyla darreli sp. nov. Species accounts of all the 16 recognized members from South Asia include current taxonomic status, metric and meristic characters, divergence in mitochondrial DNA, phylogenetic relationships, acoustic characters, revised geographical distributions, and natural history notes.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read the story\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/publication\/329773655_Systematic_revision_of_Microhyla_Microhylidae_frogs_of_South_Asia_a_molecular_morphological_and_acoustic_assessment\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1319\" src=\"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/zoo\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2018\/12\/Median-Joining-network-showing-relationships-among-phased-nuclear-BDNF-gene-haplotypes_W640.jpg\" alt=\"median-joining-network-showing-relationships-among-phased-nuclear-bdnf-gene-haplotypes_w640\" width=\"640\" height=\"382\" srcset=\"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/zoo\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2018\/12\/Median-Joining-network-showing-relationships-among-phased-nuclear-BDNF-gene-haplotypes_W640.jpg 640w, https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/zoo\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2018\/12\/Median-Joining-network-showing-relationships-among-phased-nuclear-BDNF-gene-haplotypes_W640-40x24.jpg 40w, https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/zoo\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2018\/12\/Median-Joining-network-showing-relationships-among-phased-nuclear-BDNF-gene-haplotypes_W640-300x179.jpg 300w, https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/zoo\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2018\/12\/Median-Joining-network-showing-relationships-among-phased-nuclear-BDNF-gene-haplotypes_W640-207x125.jpg 207w, https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/zoo\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2018\/12\/Median-Joining-network-showing-relationships-among-phased-nuclear-BDNF-gene-haplotypes_W640-100x60.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authors: Sonali Garg, Robin Suyesh, Abhijit Das, JiaTang Li,\u00a0Nayana Wijayathilaka, A. A. Thasun Amarasinghe, Farits\u00a0Alhadi, Kumar K Vineeth, N.A. Aravind, Gayani Senevirathne, Madhava Meegaskumbura, SD Biju. Journal:\u00a0Vertebrate Zoology This study &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/zoo\/2018\/12\/20\/systematic-revision-of-microhyla-microhylidae-frogs-of-south-asia-a-molecular-morphological-and-acoustic-assessment\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Systematic revision of Microhyla (Microhylidae) frogs of South Asia: a molecular, morphological, and acoustic assessment<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_ti_tpc_template_sync":false,"_ti_tpc_template_id":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/zoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/zoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/zoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/zoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/zoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/zoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1320,"href":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/zoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318\/revisions\/1320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/zoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/zoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/zoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}