Late Cretaceous vicariance in Microhylidae and Natatanura.

<div><p>(<b>A</b>) Molecular timetree (TK method, all calibration points except G <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0000074#pone.0000074-1" target="_blank">[12]</a>).</p> <p>Horizontal colored bars and lines at internal nodes (Standard deviation and 95% credibility interval, respectively) indicate vicariance events reconstructed by DIVA-analyses, and interpreted as follows: orange: Australia <–> Indo-Madagascar; yellow: Africa <–> South America; blue: Africa <–> Indo-Madagascar; purple: Madagascar <–> India (Seychelles); green: S. America-Antarctica <–> Indo-Madagascar (the intervening Kerguelen Plateau being involved).</p> <p>The latter splits in our timetree are interpreted as vicariance events between the Kerguelen plateau and Antarctica or Indo-Madagascar <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0000074#pone.0000074-1" target="_blank">[12]</a>.</p> <p>The branches denoting the latest colonization of Eurasia, as reconstructed by DIVA, are indicated by an asterisk.</p> <p>Numbers at terminals correspond to taxon numbers in <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0000074#pone-0000074-g001" target="_blank">figure 1</a>. (<b>B</b>) Late Cretaceous Gondwana, with indication of corresponding geological break-ups.</p> <p>Abbreviations: AF = Africa, MA = Madagascar, IN = India, EU = Eurasia, SA = South America, AN = Antarctica, AU = Australia-New Guinea, KP = Kerguelen Plateau.</p>