Rates of morphological evolution are correlated with species richness in salamanders

Evolution

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1807-1818

  Rabosky, Daniel L ^a   Adams, Dean C ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c E005A Lagomarcino Hall   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive radiation; Macroevolution; Morphological evolution; Phylogenetics; Speciation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; CORRELATION; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; LIZARD; MORPHOLOGY; PHYLOGENETICS; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); SPECIES RICHNESS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; URODELA;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; URODELA;

PLETHODONTIDAE; SALAMANDROIDEA;

EID: 84861662173     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2011.01557.x     Document Type: Article

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