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SUBMITTER: Grunert HR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6433905 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Grunert Henrik Richard HR Brocklehurst Neil N Fröbisch Jörg J
Scientific reports 20190325 1
Mass extinctions have the potential to substantially alter the evolutionary trends in a clade. If new regions of ecospace are made available, the clade may radiate. If, on the other hand, the clade passes through an evolutionary "bottleneck" by substantially reducing its species richness, then subsequent radiations may be restricted in the disparity they attain. Here we compare the patterns of diversity and disparity in the Therocephalia, a diverse lineage of amniotes that survived two mass exti ...[more]