The historical biogeography of mammalia

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 366, Issue 1577, 2011, Pages 2478-2502

  Springer, Mark S ^a   Meredith, Robert W ^a   Janecka, Jan E ^b   Murphy, William J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ancestral areas; Dispersal; Historical biogeography; Mammalia; Vicariance

Indexed keywords

ANCESTRY; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CHRONOLOGY; DISPERSAL; ENDEMIC SPECIES; FOSSIL RECORD; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY; PALEOBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PLATE TECTONICS; RECONSTRUCTION; SAMPLING; TAXONOMY; VICARIANCE;

AFRICA; SOUTH AMERICA;

AFROTHERIA; EDENTATA; EUARCHONTOGLIRES; EUTHERIA; LAURASIATHERIA; MAMMALIA; XENARTHRA;

EID: 79961079203     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2011.0023     Document Type: Article

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