Success of Parsimony in the Four-Taxon Case: Long-Branch Repulsion by Likelihood in the Farris Zone

Cladistics

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 209-220

  Siddall, Mark E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

DIPTERA; STREPSIPTERA;

EID: 0000215283     PISSN: 07483007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-0031.1998.tb00334.x     Document Type: Article

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