Body mass evolution and diversification within horses (family Equidae)

Ecology Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 211-220

  Shoemaker, Lauren ^a   Clauset, Aaron ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b University of Colorado at Boulder   (United States)

^c SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive radiation; Body mass distributions; Equidae; Macroevolution; Mathematical models; Size disparity

Indexed keywords

EQUIDAE;

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BODY MASS DISTRIBUTIONS; BODY WEIGHT; EQUIDAE; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; HORSE; LETTER; MACROEVOLUTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SIZE DISPARITY;

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; BODY MASS DISTRIBUTIONS; EQUIDAE; MACROEVOLUTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SIZE DISPARITY;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BODY WEIGHT; HORSES; MODELS, GENETIC;

EID: 84891490142     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ele.12221     Document Type: Article

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