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Ecological opportunity and the rate of morphological evolution in the diversification of Greater Antillean anoles.

Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Sept 2010

Mahler D Luke, Revell Liam J, Glor Richard E, Losos Jonathan B

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The pace of phenotypic diversification during adaptive radiation should decrease as ecological opportunity declines. We test this prediction using phylogenetic comparative analyses of a wide range of morphological traits in Greater Antillean Anolis lizards. We find that the rate of diversification along two important axes of Anolis radiation-body size and limb dimensions-decreased as opportunity declined, with...

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PMID: 20455931
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2010.01026.x

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