The delayed rise of present-day mammals

Nature

Volumn 446, Issue 7135, 2007, Pages 507-512

  Bininda Emonds, Olaf R P ^a,j   Cardillo, Marcel ^b,k   Jones, Kate E ^c   MacPhee, Ross D E ^d   Beck, Robin M D ^e   Grenyer, Richard ^f   Price, Samantha A ^g   Vos, Rutger A ^h   Gittleman, John L ⁱ   Purvis, Andy ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^d DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^f JODRELL LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^g NATIONAL EVOLUTIONARY SYNTHESIS CENTER   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^j FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^k AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS-TERTIARY BOUNDARY; DINOSAUR; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; MAMMAL; MASS EXTINCTION; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY;

ARTICLE; CRETACEOUS; EOCENE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; OLIGOCENE; ORDO; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES EXTINCTION; TERTIARY (PERIOD);

AVES; DINOSAURIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 34047108602     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature05634     Document Type: Article

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