Are reptile and amphibian species younger in the Northern Hemisphere than in the Southern Hemisphere?
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Are reptile and amphibian species younger in the Northern Hemisphere than in the Southern Hemisphere?
A previous analysis of molecular phylogenies suggested that intraspecific diversification had occurred more recently in temperate-zone Northern Hemisphere reptiles and amphibians than in Southern Hemisphere taxa. Here, we test potential explanations for this pattern. We examined published phylogenetic analyses, derived from genetic sequence data, to generate two estimates of the age of species:...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Evolutionary Biology
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1010-061X
DOI: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2011.02417.x