Latitudinal gradients of biodiversity and macroevolutionary dynamics are prominent yet poorly understood.

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Acknowledgements

- Kinetic effects of temperature on rates of genetic divergence and speciation

We thank Fangliang He, Andrew Martin, Richard Norris, Klaus Rohde, and John Wilkins for their insightful comments and suggestions. A.P.A. was supported as a Postdoctoral Associate at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, a center funded by National Science Foundation Grant DEB-0072909, and the University of California, Santa Barbara. V.M.S. was supported by National Institutes of Health Grant 1 P50 GM68763-02 through the Bauer Center for Genomics Research.

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Abbreviations: CI, confidence interval; FO, first occurrence; Ma, mega-annum; SSU rDNA, small subunit rRNA-encoding DNA.

To whom correspondence may be addressed. E-mail: drewa@nceas.ucsb.edu or jhbrown@unm.edu

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Author contributions: A.P.A., J.F.G., and J.H.B. designed research; A.P.A. and J.F.G. performed research; A.P.A. and V.M.S. contributed new reagents/analytic tools; A.P.A. analyzed data; and A.P.A., J.F.G., V.M.S., and J.H.B. wrote the paper.

Conflict of interest statement: No conflicts declared.

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