Evidence for the reversibility of digit loss: A phylogenetic study of limb evolution in Bachia (Gymnophthalmidae: Squamata)

Evolution

Volumn 60, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1896-1912

  Kohlsdorf, Tiana ^a   Wagner, Günter P ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Digit evolution; Dollo's law; Reversal; Squamata

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTIONARY THEORY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LIMB; LIZARD; PHYLOGENETICS; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; LIMB; LIZARD; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY;

ANIMALS; EXTREMITIES; LIZARDS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY;

SOUTH AMERICA;

BACHIA; GYMNOPHTHALMIDAE; SQUAMATA;

EID: 33751426945     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1554/06-056.1     Document Type: Article

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