Fitting macroevolutionary models to phylogenies: An example using vertebrate body sizes

Contributions to Zoology

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 3-18

  Mooers, Arne Ø ^a,b   Schluter, Dolph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Brownian motion; Evolution; Macroevolution; Maximum likelihood; Phylogenies; Vertebrate body size

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033475104     PISSN: 00678546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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