Why Morphometrics Is Not Special: Coding Quantitative Data for Phylogenetic Analysis

Systematic Biology

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 508-519

  Swiderski, Donald L ^a   Zelditch, Miriam Leah ^a   Fink, William L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

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ANIMAL; ARTICLE; MORPHOGENESIS; PHYLOGENY;

ANIMALS; MORPHOGENESIS; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 0032148616     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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