The road from Santa Rosalia: A faster tempo of evolution in tropical climates

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 103, Issue 20, 2006, Pages 7718-7722

  Wright, Shane ^a   Keeling, Jeannette ^a   Gillman, Len ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b AUCKLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Latitude; Metabolic rate; Molecular evolution; Mutagenesis; Speciation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENETIC DRIFT; LATITUDE; METABOLIC RATE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; TROPIC CLIMATE;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC DRIFT; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANTS; SELECTION (GENETICS); TROPICAL CLIMATE; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 33646735578     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0510383103     Document Type: Article

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