Cladistic biogeographic analysis suggests an early Caribbean diversification in Mexico

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 94, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 561-565

  Escalante, Tania ^a   Rodríguez, Gerardo ^a   Cao, Nathanaël ^b   Ebach, Malte C ^c   Morrone, Juan J ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Areagram; Caribbean; Great American Biotic Interchange; Mexican Transition Zone; Paralogy free subtree analysis

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; CARIBBEAN PLATE; CLADISTICS; CONTINENTAL COLLISION; GONDWANA; NEARCTIC REGION; NEOTROPICAL REGION; OLIGOCENE; PALEOCENE; TERRAIN; TRANSITION ZONE;

ARTICLE; CLADISTICS; ISLAND BIOGEOGRAPHY; LAND BIOME; OLIGOCENE; PALEOCENE; PARALOGY; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

CARIBBEAN REGION; GEOGRAPHY; MEXICO; NORTH AMERICA; PHYLOGENY; SOUTH AMERICA; TROPICAL CLIMATE; VARIATION (GENETICS);

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 34249944629     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-007-0228-0     Document Type: Article

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