Determining the Evolutionary Tree Using Experiments

Journal of Algorithms

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 26-50

  Kannan, Sampath K ^a   Lawler, Eugene L ^b   Warnow, Tandy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LOWER BOUND; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; UPPER BOUND;

GRAPH THEORY;

EID: 0030376980     PISSN: 01966774     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jagm.1996.0035     Document Type: Article

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