Testing quantitative genetic hypotheses about the evolutionary rate matrix for continuous characters

Evolutionary Ecology Research

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 311-331

  Revell, Liam J ^a   Harmon, Luke J ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

Brownian motion; Comparative method; Evolutionary constraint; Genetic constraint; Maximum likelihood; Phylogenetic generalized least squares; Phylogenetics

Indexed keywords

EID: 41349095584     PISSN: 15220613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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