Testing for unequal rates of morphological diversification in the absence of a detailed phylogeny: A case study from characiform fishes

Evolution

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 299-316

  Sidlauskas, Brian ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL EVOLUTIONARY SYNTHESIS CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive radiation; Brownian evolution; Disparity; Evolutionary rates; Freshwater fishes; South America; Tempo and mode

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; CLADISTICS; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; MORPHOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); SPECIES RICHNESS; SYMPATRY; TELEOST;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EVOLUTION; FISH; HISTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; SKULL; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION; FISHES; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHYLOGENY; SKULL;

SOUTH AMERICA;

PISCES;

EID: 33947178282     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2007.00022.x     Document Type: Article

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