SYNTHESIS Neotropical diversification seen through glassfrogs
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Department of Herpetology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY, USA, Laborat orio de Sistem atica de Vertebrados, Pontif ıcia Universidade Cat olica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil, Universidad Tecnol ogica Indoam erica, Centro de Investigaci on de la Biodiversidad y el Cambio Clim atico, Quito, Ecuador, Conservation and Evolutionary Genetics Group, Estaci on Biol ogica de Do~ nana (EBD-CSIC), Seville, Spain
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