Accounting for mode of speciation increases power and realism of tests of phylogenetic asymmetry

American Naturalist

Volumn 153, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 332-346

  Chan, Kai M A ^a,b   Moore, Brian R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer simulation; Null models; Peripheral isolates; Phylogeny; Tree symmetry; Vicariance

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; ASYMMETRY; PHYLOGENETICS; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY);

EID: 0032950511     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/303173     Document Type: Article

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