Clade Age and Species Richness Are Decoupled Across the Eukaryotic Tree of Life

PLoS Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Rabosky, Daniel L ^a,b   Slater, Graham J ^c   Alfaro, Michael E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CLADE AGE; CLADISTICS; EUKARYOTE EVOLUTION; EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; PHYLOGENY; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES RICHNESS; TREE OF LIFE;

BIODIVERSITY; EUKARYOTA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 84865802385     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001381     Document Type: Article

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