Mutualism with plants drives primate diversification

Systematic Biology

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 567-577

  Gómez, José M ^a   Verdú, Miguel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b CDIS UV Generalitat Valenciana)   (Spain)

Author keywords

Diversification; extinction; fossils; mutualism; primates; seed dispersal; speciation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BODY SIZE; DIET; EVOLUTION; FOOD CHAIN; FOSSIL; GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; PRIMATE; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES EXTINCTION; SYMBIOSIS; VISION;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BODY SIZE; DIET; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; FOOD CHAIN; FOSSILS; GENETIC SPECIATION; PHYLOGENY; PLANT PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; PRIMATES; SYMBIOSIS; VISION, OCULAR;

ANIMALIA; PRIMATES;

EID: 84862860504     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: 1076836X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syr127     Document Type: Article

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