A geometric morphometric assessment of the effects of environment and cladogenesis on the evolution of the turtle shell

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 485-501

  Claude, Julien ^a   Paradis, Emmanuel ^a   Tong, Haiyan ^b   Auffray, Jean Christophe ^a  

^a INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

^b NONE   (France)

Author keywords

Adaptive radiation; Geometric morphometrics; Morphological evolution; Natural selection; Phyletic constraints; Testudinoidea; Turtles

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; EVOLUTION; MORPHOLOGY; NATURAL SELECTION; SHELL; TURTLE;

TESTUDINES; TESTUDINOIDEA;

EID: 0037931196     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1095-8312.2003.00198.x     Document Type: Article

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