Coincident transitions across elevation and origins of functional innovations drove the phenotypic and ecological diversity of lungless salamanders.

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Ecological opportunity (EO) is an important catalyst for evolution. Whereas theory often centers around a lineage encountering a source of EO in isolation, in practice they experience numerous sources of opportunity, either concurrently or sequentially. Such multiplicity can obscure the macroevolutionary signature of EO. Here, we test the effects of elevation (a proxy of the "mountain effect") and an array of...

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