Using Heterochrony Plots to Detect the Dissociated Coevolution of Characters

Journal of Experimental Zoology

Volumn 291, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 282-304

  Schlosser, Gerhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; DISCOGLOSSUS; DISCOGLOSSUS PICTUS; ELEUTHERODACTYLUS COQUI;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EVOLUTION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; LIMB; PHYLOGENY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALS; EVOLUTION; EXTREMITIES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 0035888922     PISSN: 0022104X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jez.1104     Document Type: Review

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