Species delimitation in systematics: Inferring diagnostic differences between species

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 267, Issue 1444, 2000, Pages 631-636

  Wiens, John J ^a   Servedio, Maria R ^b  

^a SECTION OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Sample sizes; Species; Species delimitation; Statistics; Systematics

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; METHODOLOGY; TAXONOMY;

GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; NONHUMAN; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0034616202     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2000.1049     Document Type: Review

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