Asymmetries in phylogenetic diversification and character change can be untangled

Evolution

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 241-247

  Paradis, Emmanuel ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

Diversification; Extinction; Maximum likelihood; Phylogeny; Speciation

Indexed keywords

ASYMMETRY; EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENETIC VARIABILITY; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

GENETIC SPECIATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHYLOGENY; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 37748999338     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2007.00252.x     Document Type: Article

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