A conditional probability of reconstruction measure for internal cladogram branches

Systematic Biology

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 425-437

  Zander, Richard H ^a  

^a Buffalo Museum of Science   (United States)

Author keywords

Branch length; Chi squared; Didymodon; Multiple gene trees; Primates; Probabilistic reconstruction; Support

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMETRY; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATE; PROBABILITY;

ANIMALS; BIOMETRY; CLASSIFICATION; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATES; PROBABILITY;

EID: 0035527354     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10635150119747     Document Type: Article

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