W(h)ither fossils? Studying morphological character evolution in the age of molecular sequences

Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden

Volumn 95, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 72-100

  Hermsen, Elizabeth J ^a   Hendricks, Jonathan R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Character mapping; Chiroptera; Convergence; Echolocation; Fossil; Homoplasy; Molecular scaffold; Molecular sequence data; Morphological character evolution; Phylogeny; Simultaneous analysis; Total evidence

Indexed keywords

CHIROPTERA;

EID: 42449107407     PISSN: 00266493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3417/2006206     Document Type: Article

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