Evolution of extreme body size disparity in monitor lizards (Varanus)

Evolution

Volumn 65, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2664-2680

  Collar, David C ^a   Schulte II, James A ^b   Losos, Jonathan B ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CLARKSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brownian motion; Evolutionary allometry; Habitat use; Ornstein Uhlenbeck process; Phylogenetic comparative methods; Varanidae

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; BROWNIAN MOTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; HABITAT USE; LIZARD; MORPHOLOGY; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BODY SIZE; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; LIZARD; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BODY SIZE; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ECOSYSTEM; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LIZARDS; PHYLOGENY; SELECTION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

SQUAMATA; VARANIDAE; VARANUS; VARANUS KOMODOENSIS;

EID: 80955180948     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2011.01335.x     Document Type: Article

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