The macroevolutionary dynamics of ant diversification

Evolution

Volumn 63, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 3023-3030

  Pie, Marcio R ^a   Tschá, Marcel K ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Adaptive radiation; Cladogenesis; Formicidae; Speciation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; ANT; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; MACROECOLOGY; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMY;

ANIMAL; ANT; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; ANTS; EVOLUTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

FORMICIDAE; INVERTEBRATA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

EID: 70350246092     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2009.00768.x     Document Type: Article

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