Ontogeny discombobulates phylogeny: Paedomorphosis and higher-level salamander relationships

Systematic Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 91-110

  Wiens, John J ^a   Bonett, Ronald M ^b   Chippindale, Paul T ^b  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Amphibians; Development; Heterochrony; Morphology; Ontogeny, paedomorphosis; Phylogeny; Salamanders

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME RNA;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BAYES THEOREM; CLASSIFICATION; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; GENES, RAG-1; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RESEARCH DESIGN; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; URODELA;

EID: 15944413439     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10635150590906037     Document Type: Article

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