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Comparative analyses of the influence of developmental mode on phenotypic diversification rates in shorebirds.
Proceedings. Biological sciences - 7 Jul 2006
Thomas Gavin H, Freckleton Robert P, Székely Tamás
Abstract excerpt
Phenotypic diversity is not evenly distributed across lineages. Here, we describe and apply a maximum-likelihood phylogenetic comparative method to test for different rates of phenotypic evolution between groups of the avian order Charadriiformes (shorebirds, gulls and alcids) to test the influence of a binary trait (offspring demand; semi-precocial or precocial) on rates of evolution of parental care, mating...
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