Correlations of life-history and distributional-range variation with salamander diversification rates: Evidence for species selection

Systematic Biology

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 503-518

  Eastman, Jonathan M ^a   Storfer, Andrew ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Geographic range; heterochrony; pedomorphosis; pedomorphy; phylogenetic heritability; species sorting

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIA; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; CLASSIFICATION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; PHYLOGENY; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

ANIMALS; GENETIC SPECIATION; GEOGRAPHY; HOMING BEHAVIOR; PHYLOGENY; SELECTION, GENETIC; URODELA;

SALAMANDROIDEA;

EID: 79959394939     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: 1076836X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syr020     Document Type: Review

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