Detecting shifts in diversification rates without fossils

American Naturalist

Volumn 152, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 176-187

  Paradis, Emmanuel ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

Author keywords

Adaptive radiation; Akaike Information Criterion; Diversification maximum likelihood; Phylogeny; Survival models

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; DIVERSIFICATION; EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY;

PRIMATES;

EID: 0031827087     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/286160     Document Type: Article

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