Effects of branch length errors on the performance of phylogenetically independent contrasts

Systematic Biology

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 654-672

  Díaz Uriarte, Ramón ^a   Garland Jr , Theodore ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Branch lengths; Brownian motion; Continuous characters; Independent contrasts; Ornstein Uhlenbeck model; Simulations; Speciational model; Type I error

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PHYLOGENY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 0032226106     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/106351598260653     Document Type: Article

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