Sources of extraneous variation in the study of meristic characters: The effect of size and of inter-observer variability

Systematic Zoology

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 1990, Pages 31-39

  Lee, Julian C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

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EID: 0002689157     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2992206     Document Type: Article

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