Punctuated Equilibrium or Gradualism in the Lizard Genus Sceloporus? Lost in Plesiograms and a Forest of Trees

Cladistics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 95-103

  Murphy, Robert W ^b   Lovejoy, Nathan R ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOZYME EVOLUTION; GRADUALISM; LIZARD; PUNCTUATED EQUILIBRIUM;

SCELOPORUS;

EID: 0031927852     PISSN: 07483007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-0031.1998.tb00205.x     Document Type: Article

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