Competition and constraint drove Cope's rule in the evolution of giant flying reptiles

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Benson, Roger B J ^a   Frigot, Rachel A ^b   Goswami, Anjali ^c   Andres, Brian ^d   Butler, Richard J ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRD; BODY SIZE; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); CRETACEOUS; DATA SET; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MESOZOIC; PHYLOGENETICS; REPTILE; TIMESCALE;

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; ARTICLE; BIRD; BODY SIZE; COMPETITION; CRETACEOUS; FLYING; GEOLOGICAL TIME; LOWER CRETACEOUS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PTEROSAUR; REPTILE;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BODY SIZE; FOSSILS; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; REPTILES;

EID: 84897523367     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4567     Document Type: Article

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