What can multiple phylogenies say about the latitudinal diversity gradient? A new look at the tropical conservatism, out of the tropics, and diversification rate hypotheses

Evolution

Volumn 67, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1741-1755

  Jansson, Roland ^a   Rodríguez Castañeda, Genoveva ^a   Harding, Larisa E ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Ancestral area reconstruction; Evolutionary time; Latitudinal zone transitions; Sister group analysis; Tropical origination

Indexed keywords

ANGIOSPERM; BIRD; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INSECT; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; MAMMAL; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIRD; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; INSECT; MAMMAL; META ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PLANT; TROPIC CLIMATE;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC VARIATION; INSECTS; MAMMALS; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PLANTS; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

AVES; HEXAPODA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 84878647626     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/evo.12089     Document Type: Article

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