Recent and rapid speciation with limited morphological disparity in the genus rattus

Systematic Biology

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 188-203

  Rowe, Kevin C ^a,b   Aplin, Ken P ^c   Baverstock, Peter R ^b   Moritz, Craig ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN CROSS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; FOSSIL; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; MURINAE; PHYLOGENY; RAT; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

ANIMALS; FOSSILS; GENETIC SPECIATION; MURINAE; PHYLOGENY; RATS;

MURINAE; RATTUS; RODENTIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 79951564153     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: 1076836X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syq092     Document Type: Article

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