I would like to do that in the future, but I have not done any genetic work yet. There are some occurrences that seem to be pretty clear cases of accidental or deliberate introduction, where the frogs show up at fish farms, golf courses, etc. far from the nearest populations, but I think at least a large portion of the range expansion is natural. I don't know what kind of resolution I would be able to get, but if it's pretty fine I might even be able to trace invasion routes!

As far as I can discover no broadscale genetics work has been done on this species, so it will be interesting to see if it has genetic breaks at the Mississippi and Appalachicola like a lot of other species do. I hope I get the opportunity to do some research of that sort with these guys.

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