Testing species' deviation from allometric predictions using the phylogenetic regression

Evolution

Volumn 70, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 1145-1149

  Smaers, J B ^a   Rohlf, F J ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Grade shift; Phylogenetic ANCOVA; Phylogenetic confidence intervals; Phylogenetic prediction intervals

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRY; BRAIN; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENETICS; PRIMATE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

PRIMATES;

ALGORITHM; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN; GENETICS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; ORGAN SIZE; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATE; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BRAIN; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC SPECIATION; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; ORGAN SIZE; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATES;

EID: 84968919039     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/evo.12910     Document Type: Article

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