What salamanders have taught Us about evolution

Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics

Volumn 40, Issue , 2009, Pages 333-352

  Wake, David B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive radiation; Biodiversity; Homoplasy; Morphology; Multidimensional analysis; Ontogeny; Phylogeny; Species; Species formation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; AMPHIBIAN; BIODIVERSITY; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; HOMOLOGY; MORPHOLOGY; ONTOGENY; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES CONCEPT; TAXONOMY;

SALAMANDROIDEA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 77951714105     PISSN: 1543592X     EISSN: 15452069     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.ecolsys.39.110707.173552     Document Type: Article

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