Speciation and extinction drive the appearance of directional range size evolution in phylogenies and the fossil record

PLoS Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Pigot, Alex L ^a,b   Owens, Ian P F ^b,c   Orme, C David L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CENOZOIC; FOSSIL; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PROBABILITY; SIMULATION; STOCHASTIC MODEL; TAXONOMY; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIRD; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; MAMMAL; MOLLUSC; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES EXTINCTION; STATISTICS;

AVES; MAMMALIA; MOLLUSCA;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BIRDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; FOSSILS; GENETIC SPECIATION; MAMMALS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLLUSCA; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 84857488254     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001260     Document Type: Article

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