Testing The Museum Versus Cradle Tropical Biological Diversity Hypothesis: Phylogeny, Diversification, And Ancestral Biogeographic Range Evolution Of The Ants

Evolution

Volumn 67, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 2240-2257

  Moreau, Corrie S ^a   Bell, Charles D ^b  

^a FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

^b University of New Orleans   (United States)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Divergence dating; Formicidae; Molecular clock; Neotropics; Phylogenetics

Indexed keywords

ANT; BIOGEOGRAPHY; CRETACEOUS; DIVERGENCE; FOSSIL RECORD; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; MUSEUM; NEOTROPIC ECOZONE; NEW SPECIES; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; RECONSTRUCTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TOPOLOGY; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

ANIMAL; ANT; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOGEOGRAPHY; CLASSIFICATION; CLIMATE; DIVERGENCE DATING; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; GENE; GENETICS; MOLECULAR CLOCK; NEOTROPICS; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY;

BIOGEOGRAPHY; DIVERGENCE DATING; FORMICIDAE; MOLECULAR CLOCK; NEOTROPICS; PHYLOGENETICS;

ANIMALS; ANTS; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CLIMATE; FOSSILS; GENES, INSECT; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY;

FORMICIDAE; MYA;

EID: 84880798867     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/evo.12105     Document Type: Article

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