Characters, congruence and quality: A study of neuroanatomical and traditional data in caecilian phylogeny

Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 423-470

  Wilkinson, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Caecilians; Character weighting; Characters; Compatibility; Congruence; Gymnophiona; Parsimony; Phylogeny; Randomization tests

Indexed keywords

DATA ANALYSIS; NEUROANATOMY; PHYLOGENY; RANDOMIZATION; REVIEW; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0030680145     PISSN: 00063231     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0006323197005069     Document Type: Review

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