Loss and re-evolution of complex life cycles in marsupial frogs: Does ancestral trait reconstruction mislead?

Evolution

Volumn 61, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1886-1899

  Wiens, John J ^a   Kuczynski, Caitlin A ^a   Duellman, William E ^b   Reeder, Tod W ^c  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^c SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amphibians; Ancestral reconstruction; Development; Life history; Phylogeny

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANCESTRY; FROG; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GIS; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LIFE CYCLE; LIFE HISTORY; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; RECONSTRUCTION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLIMATE; EVOLUTION; FROGS AND TOADS; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LIFE CYCLE; PHYLOGENY;

ANIMALS; ANURA; CLIMATE; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; PHYLOGENY;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; GASTROTHECA; METATHERIA;

EID: 34547697905     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2007.00159.x     Document Type: Article

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