Directional evolution of stockiness coevolves with ecology and locomotion in lizards

Evolution

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 215-227

  Bergmann, Philip J ^a,b   Meyers, Jay J ^a   Irschick, Duncan J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian methods; Defensive structures; Diet; Macroevolution; Phrynosomatinae; Sprint speed

Indexed keywords

ANCESTRY; COEVOLUTION; DEFENSE MECHANISM; ECOLOGY; EVOLUTION; LIZARD; LOCOMOTION; RECONSTRUCTION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CLASSIFICATION; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; LIZARD; LOCOMOTION; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; EVOLUTION; LIZARDS; LOCOMOTION; PHYLOGENY;

BREVICEPS; FORMICIDAE; PHRYNOSOMA; PHRYNOSOMATINAE; SQUAMATA;

EID: 58249101133     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2008.00534.x     Document Type: Article

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