Testing historical explanations for gradients in species richness in heliconiine butterflies of tropical America

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 105, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 479-497

  Rosser, Neil ^a   Phillimore, Albert B ^b   Huertas, Blanca ^a,c   Willmott, Keith R ^d   Mallet, James ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Conservatism; Evolutionary age; Extinction; Range maps; Speciation; Subspecies richness; Suture zones; Terminal phylogenetic branch length

Indexed keywords

BUTTERFLY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PHYLOGENETICS; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; SPECIMEN BANK; SUBSPECIES;

AMAZON BASIN; AMAZON RIVER; ANDES; COLOMBIA; ECUADOR; PERU;

HELICONIUS; PAPILIONOIDEA;

EID: 84856495145     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2011.01814.x     Document Type: Article

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