Evidence of constrained phenotypic evolution in a cryptic species complex of agamid lizards

Evolution

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 976-992

  Smith, Katie L ^a,b   Harmon, Luke J ^c   Shoo, Luke P ^a,d   Melville, Jane ^a  

^a MUSEUM VICTORIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Agamidae; Morphological evolution; Morphological stasis; Nonadaptive; Phylogenetics

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; BROWNIAN MOTION; CLADISTICS; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; CRYPSIS; DATA SET; DIVERGENCE; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; LIZARD; MITOCHONDRION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PHENOTYPE; TIMESCALE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; GENE; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; HISTOLOGY; LIZARD; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MORPHOMETRICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ECOSYSTEM; GENES, RAG-1; GEOGRAPHY; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LIZARDS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NORTHERN TERRITORY; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; QUEENSLAND; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

AGAMIDAE; DIPORIPHORA MAGNA; SQUAMATA;

EID: 79953322830     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2010.01211.x     Document Type: Article

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