Testing for different rates of continuous trait evolution using likelihood

Evolution

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 922-933

  O'Meara, Brian C ^a   Cécile, Ané ^b   Sanderson, Michael J ^a   Wainwright, Peter C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

Author keywords

Brownian motion; Brownie; Comparative method; Continuous characters; Disparity; Morphological evolution; Rate

Indexed keywords

BROWNIAN MOTION; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; PHENOTYPE; SIMULATION;

SCOMBEROMORUS SEMIFASCIATUS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; LIFE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME;

ANIMALS; CLASSIFICATION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; LIFE; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TIME; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 33747056328     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1554/05-130.1     Document Type: Article

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