Dental characters used in phylogenetic analyses of mammals show higher rates of evolution, but not reduced independence

Accurate reconstructions of phylogeny are essential for studying the evolution of a clade, and morphological characters are necessarily used for the reconstruction of the relationships of fossil organisms. However, variation in their evolutionary modes (for example rate variation and character non-i...

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Main Authors: Neil Brocklehurst, Gemma Louise Benevento
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PeerJ Inc. 2020-03-01
Series:PeerJ
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Online Access:https://peerj.com/articles/8744.pdf