Do Freshwater Fishes Diversify Faster Than Marine Fishes? A Test Using State-Dependent Diversification Analyses And Molecular Phylogenetics Of New World Silversides (Atherinopsidae)

Evolution

Volumn 67, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 2040-2057

  Bloom, Devin D ^a   Weir, Jason T ^a   Piller, Kyle R ^b   Lovejoy, Nathan R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b SOUTHEASTERN LOUISIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biogeography; BiSSE; extinction; macroevolution; speciation; species richness

Indexed keywords

FRESH WATER;

BIOACCUMULATION; BIOGEOGRAPHY; CALIBRATION; CLADISTICS; EXTINCTION; FISH; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; HABITAT TYPE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENY; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOGEOGRAPHY; BISSE; CLASSIFICATION; EXTINCTION; GENETICS; MACROEVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; SMEGMAMORPHA; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES EXTINCTION; SPECIES RICHNESS;

BIOGEOGRAPHY; BISSE; EXTINCTION; MACROEVOLUTION; SPECIATION; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ANIMALS; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; FRESH WATER; GENETIC SPECIATION; PHYLOGENY; SMEGMAMORPHA;

ARGENTINA ELONGATA; ATHERINOPSIDAE; MENIDIINAE; PISCES; TELEOSTEI;

EID: 84879780310     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/evo.12074     Document Type: Article

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