Exceptional among-lineage variation in diversification rates during the radiation of Australia's most diverse vertebrate clade

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 274, Issue 1628, 2007, Pages 2915-2923

  Rabosky, Daniel L ^a,b   Donnellan, Stephen C ^c,d   Talaba, Amanda L ^b   Lovette, Irby J ^a,b  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b Fuller Evolutionary Biology Program   (United States)

^c SOUTH AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Diversification rates; Key innovation; Phylogeny; Scincid lizards; Speciation

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANCESTRY; EVOLUTION; LIZARD; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TAXONOMY; VERTEBRATE;

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BAYES THEOREM; CLADISTICS; CLIMATE CHANGE; DESERT CLIMATE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HYPOTHESIS; INTERSPECIFIC RELATIONSHIP; INTRON; LIZARD; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TAXONOMY; TEMPERATURE ACCLIMATIZATION;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

COLEOPTERA; CTENOTUS; LERISTA; SCINCIDAE; SQUAMATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 36549010497     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2007.0924     Document Type: Article

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