Phylogeography of declining relict and lowland leopard frogs in the desert Southwest of North America
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1 School of Life Sciences, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV, USA 2 Public Lands Institute, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV, USA 3 Arizona Game and Fish Department, Nongame Branch, Phoenix, AZ, USA 4 State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, NY, USA 5 Department of Natural Sciences, Western New Mexico University, Silver City, NM, USA 6 US Geological Survey, Southwest Biological Science Center, Flagstaff, AZ, USA 7 US Environmental Protection Agency, National Exposure Research Laboratory, Environmental Science Division, Las Vegas, NV, USA
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