Extinction rates should not be estimated from molecular phylogenies

Evolution

Volumn 64, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1816-1824

  Rabosky, Daniel L ^a,b,c  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b Fuller Evolutionary Biology Program   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive radiation; Extinction; Macroevolution; Phylogenetics

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; CLADISTICS; DIVERGENCE; EXTINCTION; LIFE HISTORY; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES EXTINCTION;

EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 77953910538     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2009.00926.x     Document Type: Article

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