Anuran radiations and the evolution of tadpole morphospace

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 21, 2011, Pages 8731-8736

  Roelants, Kim ^a   Haas, Alexander ^b   Bossuyt, Franky ^a  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; EVOLUTIONARY RATE; HOMOPLASY; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION; TADPOLE;

ANIMALS; ANURA; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; LARVA; PHYLOGENY;

ANURA; NEOBATRACHIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 79957719036     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1100633108     Document Type: Article

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