Weighing homoplasy against alternative scenarios with the help of macroevolutionary modeling: A case study on limb bones of fossorial sciuromorph rodents
Abstract Homoplasy is a strong indicator of a phenotypic trait's adaptive significance when it can be linked to a similar function. We assessed homoplasy in functionally relevant scapular and femoral traits of Marmotini and Xerini, two sciuromorph rodent clades that independently acquired a fos...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Wiley
2019-10-01
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Series: | Ecology and Evolution |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.5592 |