How traits shape trees: New approaches for detecting character state-dependent lineage diversification

Journal of Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 2035-2045

  Ng, J ^a   Smith, S D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Anagenetic change; Ancestral state reconstruction; BiSSE; Character evolution; Cladogenetic change; Directional trend; Diversification; Evolutionary dead end; Geographic range size; Key innovation

Indexed keywords

BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EVOLUTION; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; GENETIC SPECIATION; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 84911985399     PISSN: 1010061X     EISSN: 14209101     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jeb.12460     Document Type: Article

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