Coping with abundant missing entries in phylogenetic inference using parsimony

Systematic Biology

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 1995, Pages 501-514

  Wilkinson, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Consensus; Equivalence; Parsimony; Phylogeny; Safe taxonomic reduction; Saurischia; Underdetermination

Indexed keywords

EID: 0029498439     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: 1076836X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/44.4.501     Document Type: Article

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