The assumptions and challenges of ancestral state reconstructions

Systematic Biology

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 604-611

  Omland, Kevin E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

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EID: 0033448470     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/106351599260175     Document Type: Article

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