Is It Better to Add Taxa or Characters to a Difficult Phylogenetic Problem?

Systematic Biology

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 9-17

  Graybeal, Anna ^a,b  

^a FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Long branch attraction; Parsimony; Phylogenetic reconstruction; Simulation; Taxon sampling

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; METHODOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; REPRODUCIBILITY;

CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PHYLOGENY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 0032025857     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/106351598260996     Document Type: Article

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