How many taxa must be sampled to identify the root node of a large clade?

Systematic Biology

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 168-173

  Sanderson, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Branching; Diversification; Phylogeny; Speciation; Taxon sampling; Yule model

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030310770     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/45.2.168     Document Type: Article

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