Vagaries in the delimitation of character states in quantitative variation - An experimental study

Systematic Biology

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 112-125

  Gift, N ^a,b   Stevens, P F ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Character states; Cognition; Continuous variation; Homology; Observer variation; Similarity

Indexed keywords

ERICACEAE; KALMIA;

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; ERICACEAE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ERICACEAE; PHYLOGENY; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0031084118     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/46.1.112     Document Type: Article

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