Are rates of diversification in subterranean South American tuco-tucos (genus Ctenomys, Rodentia: Octodontidae) unusually high?

Evolution

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1521-1527

  Cook, Joseph A ^a   Lessa, Enrique P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA MUSEUM   (United States)

^b Instituto de Biologia   (Uruguay)

Author keywords

Adaptive radiation; Cladogenesis; Rodent; Speciation; Subterranean; Tree balance

Indexed keywords

RODENT; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY);

SOUTH AMERICA;

CTENOMYIDAE; CTENOMYS; MAMMALIA; OCTODONTIDAE; RODENTIA;

EID: 0031787279     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.1998.tb02035.x     Document Type: Article

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