Testing Phylogenetic Methods with Tree Congruence: Phylogenetic Analysis of Polymorphic Morphological Characters in Phrynosomatid Lizards

Systematic Biology

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 427-444

  Wiens, John J ^a  

^a SECTION OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Congruence; Distance; Likelihood; Morphology; Parsimony; Polymorphic characters

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032351679     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/106351598260806     Document Type: Article

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