Vertebrate time-tree elucidates the biogeographic pattern of a major biotic change around the K-T boundary in Madagascar

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 14, 2012, Pages 5358-5363

  Crottini, Angelica ^a,b,h   Madsen, Ole ^c   Poux, Celine ^d,e,f   Strauß, Axel ^a   Vieites, David R ^g   Vences, Miguel ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIV LILLE   (France)

^e CNRS   (France)

^f ROYAL BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

^g MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

^h CENTRO DE INVESTIGAÇÃO EM BIODIVERSIDADE E RECURSOS GENÉTICOS   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Cretaceous Tertiary; Historical biogeography; Lineage diversification; Overseas dispersal; Rainforest adaptation

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; RAG1 PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CENOZOIC; CLADISTICS; CRETACEOUS; DNA SEQUENCE; EOCENE; EVOLUTION; GENE DOSAGE; ISLAND BIOGEOGRAPHY; MADAGASCAR; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DISPERSAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAIN FOREST; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES ENDEMICITY; SPECIES HABITAT; SPECIES RICHNESS; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; GEOGRAPHY; MADAGASCAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; VERTEBRATES;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84859462115     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1112487109     Document Type: Article

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