Evolutionary bangs and whimpers: methodological advances and conceptual frameworks for studying exceptional diversification.
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1Department of Integrative Biology and Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley CA 94720 USA; and 2Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California at Los Angeles, 651 Charles Young Dr. South, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA; *Correspondence to be sent to: Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley CA 94720, USA; Email: [email protected].
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Systematic biology
دوره 59 6 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2010