Frigatebirds, tropicbirds, and Ciconiida: Excesses of confidence probability

Cladistics

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 1-7

  Farris, James S ^a   Källersjö, Mari ^a   Crowe, Timothy M ^b   Lipscomb, Diana ^a   Johansson, Ulf ^a  

^a SWEDISH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POPULATION GENETICS; RIBOSOMAL RNA; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYSTEMATICS; TAXONOMY;

EID: 0033102369     PISSN: 07483007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/clad.1998.0077     Document Type: Article

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