Renewed diversification is associated with new ecological opportunity in the Neotropical turtle ants

Journal of Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 242-258

  Price, S L ^a,b   Powell, S ^a   Kronauer, D J C ^c,d   Tran, L A P ^e   Pierce, N E ^d   Wayne, R K ^b  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Cephalotes; Chacoan; Community phylogenetics; Phylogeny; Radiation; Speciation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; ANT; ENTOMOLOGY; EOCENE; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; MIOCENE; NEOTROPICAL REGION; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); ZOOGEOGRAPHY;

GRAN CHACO;

CEPHALOTES; FORMICIDAE; MYA; TESTUDINES; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMAL; ANT; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIODIVERSITY; BIOGEOGRAPHY; CENTRAL AMERICA; CEPHALOTES; CHACOAN; CLASSIFICATION; COMMUNITY PHYLOGENETICS; EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION; SOUTH AMERICA; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

BIOGEOGRAPHY; CEPHALOTES; CHACOAN; COMMUNITY PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; RADIATION; SPECIATION;

ANIMALS; ANTS; BAYES THEOREM; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CENTRAL AMERICA; GENETIC SPECIATION; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 84892864494     PISSN: 1010061X     EISSN: 14209101     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jeb.12300     Document Type: Article

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