The role of subjectivity in reconstructing ancestral character states: A Bayesian approach to unknown rates, states, and transformation asymmetries

Systematic Biology

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 651-664

  Schultz, Ted R ^a   Churchill, Gary A ^b,c  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^b JACKSON LABORATORY   (United States)

^c Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences   (United States)

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EID: 0033432230     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/106351599260229     Document Type: Article

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