Delimitation of phylogenetic species with DNA sequences: A critique of Davis and Nixon's population aggregation analysis

Systematic Biology

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 199-213

  Brower, Andrew V Z ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION GENETICS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA; GENETICS, POPULATION; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 0033084986     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/106351599260535     Document Type: Article

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