Is cladogenesis heritable?

Systematic Biology

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 835-843

  Savolainen, Vincent ^a   Heard, Stephen B ^b   Powell, Martyn P ^a,c   Jonathan Davies, T ^a,d   Mooers, Arne Ø ^e  

^a JODRELL LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^d NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^e SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Branch length; Cladogenesis; Diversification; Molecular clock; Phylogenetic tree shape; Speciation

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; AVES; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FUNGI; HEXAPODA; INSECTA;

EID: 0347296180     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10635150290102537     Document Type: Conference Paper

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