A new mechanism for recurrent adaptive radiations

American Naturalist

Volumn 170, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Ito, Hiroshi C ^a,b   Dieckmann, Ulf ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adaptive radiation; Evolutionary branching; Extinction; Frequency dependent selection; Taxon cycle

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; EXTINCTION; GEOMETRY; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; SEXUAL REPRODUCTION;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENETIC SELECTION; MALE; PHENOTYPE; REPRODUCTION; SPECIES EXTINCTION;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; EVOLUTION; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; FEMALE; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHENOTYPE; REPRODUCTION; SELECTION (GENETICS);

EID: 34948828034     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/521229     Document Type: Article

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