The shape of mammalian phylogeny: Patterns, processes and scales

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 366, Issue 1577, 2011, Pages 2462-2477

  Purvis, Andy ^a   Fritz, Susanne A ^b   Rodríguez, Jesús ^c   Harvey, Paul H ^d   Grenyer, Richard ^a,d  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c CENTRO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIÓN SOBRE LA EVOLUCIÓN HUMANA CENIEH   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Community phylogenetics; Evolutionary radiations; Macroevolution; Phylogenetic imbalance; Simulation; Stochastic model

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; ASYMMETRY; CLADISTICS; ECOREGION; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; MAMMAL; NICHE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PHYLOGENY; SHAPE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); SPECIES DIVERSITY; STOCHASTICITY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETICS; MAMMAL; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICS;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MAMMALS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHYLOGENY; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

ARTHROPODA; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 79961099592     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2011.0025     Document Type: Article

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