Morphological diversity and the roles of contingency, chance and determinism in african cichlid radiations.

Morphological diversity and the roles of contingency, chance and determinism in african cichlid radiations.

BACKGROUND:Deterministic evolution, phylogenetic contingency and evolutionary chance each can influence patterns of morphological diversification during adaptive radiation. In comparative studies of replicate radiations, convergence in a common morphospace implicates determinism, whereas non-converg...

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Main Authors: Kyle A Young, Jos Snoeks, Ole Seehausen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2009-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2648897?pdf=render

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