Some limitations of ancestral character-state reconstruction when testing evolutionary hypotheses

Systematic Biology

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 665-674

  Cunningham, Clifford W ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0033442555     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/106351599260238     Document Type: Article

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