Trophic divergence despite morphological convergence in a continental radiation of snakes

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 281, Issue 1787, 2014, Pages

  Grundler, Michael C ^a   Rabosky, Daniel L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive radiation; Convergence; Feeding ecology; Phenotypic evolution

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; CLADISTICS; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; DIET; DIVERGENCE; FEEDING ECOLOGY; LOCOMOTION; MORPHOLOGY; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; SNAKE;

NORTH AMERICA;

ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; AUSTRALIA; CLASSIFICATION; ELAPIDAE; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; LOCOMOTION; NORTH AMERICA; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; SNAKE;

ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; ELAPIDAE; ENVIRONMENT; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; LOCOMOTION; NORTH AMERICA; PHYLOGENY; SNAKES;

EID: 84902687849     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2014.0413     Document Type: Article

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