Testing hypotheses of correlated evolution using phylogenetically independent contrasts: Sensitivity to deviations from Brownian motion

Systematic Biology

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 27-47

  Díaz Uriarte, Ramón ^a   Garland Jr , Theodore ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Comparative method; Computer simulation; Correlated evolution; Hypothesis testing; Independent contrasts; Phylogeny; Statistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030336792     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/45.1.27     Document Type: Article

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