Testing for unequal amounts of evolution in a continuous character on different branches of a phylogenetic tree using linear and squared-change parsimony: An example using lesser antillean Anolis lizards

Evolution

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1623-1635

  Butler, Marguerite A ^a   Losos, Jonathan B ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ancestral reconstruction; Brownian motion; Gradual evolution; Phylogenetic comparative method; Simulation; Speciational evolution; Statistical tests

Indexed keywords

ANOLIS; SQUAMATA;

EID: 0030770982     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.1997.tb01485.x     Document Type: Article

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