Plausibility of inferred ancestral phenotypes and the evaluation of alternative models of limb evolution in scincid lizards

Biology Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 354-358

  Skinner, Adam ^a,b   Lee, Michael S Y ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b SOUTH AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ancestral state; Bayesian inference; Lerista; Limb reduction; Squamata

Indexed keywords

ANCESTRY; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; EVOLUTIONARILY STABLE STRATEGY; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; LIMB; LIZARD; MORPHOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENETICS;

LERISTA; SCINCIDAE; SQUAMATA;

EID: 77954139434     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2009.0840     Document Type: Article

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