Accuracy of phylogenetic analysis including and excluding polymorphic characters

Systematic Biology

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 332-345

  Wiens, John J ^a   Servedio, Maria R ^b  

^a SECTION OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Coding methods; Computer simulations; Parsimony; Polymorphic characters; Sample size; Weighting

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031484624     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/46.2.332     Document Type: Article

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