Ancestral state reconstructions require biological evidence to test evolutionary hypotheses: A case study examining the evolution of reproductive mode in squamate reptiles

Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution

Volumn 324, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 493-503

  Griffith, Oliver W ^a   Blackburn, Daniel G ^b   Brandley, Matthew C ^a   Van Dyke, James U ^a   Whittington, Camilla M ^a   Thompson, Michael B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b TRINITY COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REPTILIA; SQUAMATA;

ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; LIZARD; OVIPARITY; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; SNAKE; VIVIPARITY;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; FEMALE; LIZARDS; OVIPARITY; PHYLOGENY; SNAKES; VIVIPARITY, NONMAMMALIAN;

EID: 84938964917     PISSN: 15525007     EISSN: 15525015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jez.b.22614     Document Type: Review

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