Building phylogenetic trees from quartets by using local inconsistency measures

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 685-693

  Willson, Stephen J ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Inconsistency; Likelihood; Parsimony; Phylogenetic; Quartet

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TAXONOMY;

EID: 0032927880     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a026151     Document Type: Article

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