Can parallel diversification occur in sympatry? repeated patterns of body-size evolution in coexisting clades of north american salamanders

Evolution

Volumn 63, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1769-1784

  Kozak, Kenneth H ^a   Mendyk, Robert W ^b   Wiens, John J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive radiation; Biogeography; Community assembly; Competition; Diversification; Salamanders

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; AMPHIBIAN; BODY SIZE; CLADISTICS; COEXISTENCE; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); ECOMORPHOLOGY; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; ISOLATED POPULATION; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; NICHE; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PHYLOGENY; SELECTION; SYMPATRY; ZOOGEOGRAPHY;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; HISTOLOGY; NORTH AMERICA; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME;

ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; DNA; EVOLUTION; GEOGRAPHY; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; NORTH AMERICA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TIME FACTORS; URODELA;

NORTH AMERICA;

ANOLIS; DESMOGNATHUS; PLETHODON; PLETHODONTIDAE; SALAMANDROIDEA;

EID: 67649416104     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2009.00680.x     Document Type: Article

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