Investigating evolutionary lag using the species-pairs evolutionary lag test (SPELT)

Evolution

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 245-253

  Nunn, Charles L ^a   Cooper, Natalie ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Brownian motion; Computer simulation; Macroevolution; Phylogenetic comparative methods; Phylogeny

Indexed keywords

BROWNIAN MOTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PHYLOGENY; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY);

ALGORITHM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MODELS, GENETIC;

EID: 84925354747     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/evo.12520     Document Type: Article

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