Arboreality and morphological evolution in ground beetles (Carabidae: Harpalinae): Testing the taxon pulse model

Evolution

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1343-1358

  Ober, Karen A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Ancestral state reconstruction; Correlated character evolution; Habitat specialization; Independent contrasts; Maximum likelihood; Niche shift; Phylogenetic uncertainty

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ARBOREAL SPECIES; BEETLE; EVOLUTION; MORPHOLOGY; PHYLOGENETICS;

CARABIDAE; COLEOPTERA; HARPALINAE;

EID: 0037626722     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0014-3820.2003.tb00342.x     Document Type: Article

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