Modelling rate distributions using character compatibility: Implications for morphological evolution among fossil invertebrates

Biology Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 143-146

  Wagner, Peter J ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Character evolution; Compatibility; Gamma distribution; Information theory; Lognormal distribution

Indexed keywords

CHARACTER DISPLACEMENT; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FOSSIL RECORD; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INFORMATION SYSTEM; INVERTEBRATE; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; MORPHOLOGY; PALEOECOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; TAXONOMY;

INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 84856283485     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2011.0523     Document Type: Article

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