Improved bootstrap confidence limits in large-scale phylogenies, with an example from Neo-Astragalus (Leguminosae)

Systematic Biology

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 671-685

  Sanderson, Michael J ^a   Wojciechowski, Martin F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bootstrap; Phylogeny reconstruction; Species richness; Taxon sampling

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; GENETICS; LEGUME; METHODOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; CLASSIFICATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FABACEAE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 0034351392     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/106351500750049761     Document Type: Article

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