Is the rate of molecular evolution inversely related to body size?

Systematic Biology

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 396-399

  Slowinski, Joseph B ^a   Arbogast, Brian S ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (United States)

^b WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY CONSTITUTION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; PROBABILITY;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BODY CONSTITUTION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MARKOV CHAINS; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 0033139192     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/106351599260364     Document Type: Article

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