Lineage diversification and morphological evolution in a large-scale continental radiation: The neotropical ovenbirds and woodcreepers (aves: furnariidae)

Evolution

Volumn 65, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2973-2986

  Derryberry, Elizabeth P ^a   Claramunt, Santiago ^a   Derryberry, Graham ^b   Chesser, R Terry ^c   Cracraft, Joel ^d   Aleixo, Alexandre ^e   Pérez Emán, Jorge ^f,g   Remsen, J V ^a   Brumfield, Robb T ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BioComputing Asheville   (United States)

^c DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^d DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^e MUSEU PARAENSE EMÍLIO GOELDI   (Brazil)

^f UNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL DE VENEZUELA   (Venezuela)

^g Colección Ornitológica Phelps ^*  (Venezuela)

Author keywords

Adaptive Radiation; Morphological Evolution; Phylogenetics

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FITNESS; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MORPHOLOGY; NEOTROPIC ECOZONE; PASSERINE; PHYLOGENETICS; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); SPECIES RICHNESS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; SONGBIRD; SPECIES EXTINCTION;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, GENETIC; PASSERIFORMES; PHYLOGENY;

AVES; FURNARIIDAE; SEIURUS;

EID: 80053453890     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2011.01374.x     Document Type: Article

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