Uninformative characters and apparent conflict between molecules and morphology [1]

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 676-680

  Lee, Michael S Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Character conflict; Incongruence; Incongruence length difference test; Partition homogeneity test

Indexed keywords

DATA ANALYSIS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; LETTER; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS;

EID: 0035065311     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a003848     Document Type: Letter

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