The geography of evolutionary opportunity: Hypothesis and two cases in gastropods

Integrative and Comparative Biology

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 935-940

  Vermeij, Geerat J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GASTROPODA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0036876960     PISSN: 00031569     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icb/42.5.935     Document Type: Conference Paper

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