Evolutionary diversification of clades of squamate reptiles

Journal of Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1751-1762

  Ricklefs, R E ^a   Losos, J B ^b   Townsend, T M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alethinophidian snakes; Extinction; Key innovation; Lineage through time plot; Mass extinction; Passerine birds; Phylogenetic independence; Speciation; Squamate reptiles

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; HETEROGENEITY; PASSERINE; PHYLOGENY; SNAKE; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); SPECIES RICHNESS; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT; TROPICAL REGION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPTILE; SONGBIRD; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES EXTINCTION;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTION; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; GENETIC SPECIATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PASSERIFORMES; PHYLOGENY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPTILES;

ALETHINOPHIDIA; AVES; PASSERIFORMES; REPTILIA; SERPENTES; SQUAMATA;

EID: 34547907766     PISSN: 1010061X     EISSN: 14209101     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2007.01388.x     Document Type: Article

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