The effects of cenozoic global change on squirrel phylogeny

Science

Volumn 299, Issue 5612, 2003, Pages 1568-1572

  Mercer, John M ^a   Roth, V Louise ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY;

HABITATS; LANDMASSES;

TECTONICS;

BIODIVERSITY; CENOZOIC; GLOBAL CHANGE; PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY; PHYLOGENY; SMALL MAMMAL; TECTONICS;

ARTICLE; CENOZOIC; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOGRAPHY; GEOMORPHOLOGY; HABITAT STRUCTURE; MOLECULAR CLOCK; MOTION; NONHUMAN; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SQUIRREL; TIME;

AFRICA; ANIMALS; ASIA; BAYES THEOREM; BODY CONSTITUTION; CENTRAL AMERICA; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ENVIRONMENT; EUROPE; EVOLUTION; EYE PROTEINS; FOSSILS; GEOGRAPHY; GEOLOGY; NORTH AMERICA; PHYLOGENY; RETINOL-BINDING PROTEINS; SCIURIDAE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOUTH AMERICA;

MAMMALIA; SCIURIDAE;

EID: 0037423796     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1079705     Document Type: Article

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