Footprints in the sand: Independent reduction of subdigital lamellae in the Namib-Kalahari burrowing geckos

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 273, Issue 1588, 2006, Pages 855-864

  Lamb, Trip ^a   Bauer, Aaron M ^b  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Convergence; Ecomorphology; Gekkonidae; Kalahari; Namib; Phylogenetics

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CLADISTICS; DUNE; ECOMORPHOLOGY; LIZARD; MOLECULAR ECOLOGY; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENY;

ACCURACY; AFRICA; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BURROWING SPECIES; CHONDRODACTYLUS; COLOPUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GECKO; LAMELLAR BODY; NONHUMAN; PALMATOGECKO; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REDUCTION; SYNAPOMORPHY; TOE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; CLASSIFICATION; ENVIRONMENT; GENETICS; GENOME; GEOGRAPHY; HISTOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LIMB; LIZARD; NAMIBIA; PHYSIOLOGY;

AFRICA; KALAHARI DESERT; NAMIB DESERT; NAMIBIA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

CHONDRODACTYLUS; COLOPUS; GEKKONIDAE; PACHYDACTYLUS; PALMATOGECKO;

DNA;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DNA; ENVIRONMENT; EXTREMITIES; GENOME; GEOGRAPHY; LIZARDS; NAMIBIA; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 33745260666     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2005.3390     Document Type: Article

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