Improving interpretation of the decay index for DNA sequence data

Systematic Biology

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 742-752

  Debry, Ronald W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA SEQUENCE; NUCLEIC ACID DATABASE; PHYLOGENY; STATISTICS;

BIOMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASES, NUCLEIC ACID; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 0035527367     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/106351501753328866     Document Type: Article

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