Step matrices and the interpretation of homoplasy

Systematic Biology

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 582-588

  Ree, Richard H ^a   Donoghue, Michael J ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Ancestral states; Character evolution; Homoplasy; Parsimony; Phylogenetic inference

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; PHYLOGENY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 0032225751     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/106351598260590     Document Type: Article

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