Positive correlations between molecular and morphological rates of evolution

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 264, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 799-807

  Seligmann, Hervé ^a,b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Accuracy of ancestral state reconstruction; Molecular clock; Node density effects; Phenotype genotype relationship; Sampling error

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION; EVOLUTION; GENOTYPE; MORPHOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTANT SPECIES; GENOTYPE PHENOTYPE CORRELATION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MORPHOLOGY; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PLANT EVOLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLE SIZE; SAMPLING ERROR; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ANATOMY, COMPARATIVE; ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 77952673303     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2010.03.019     Document Type: Article

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