Changing the landscape: A new strategy for estimating large phylogenies

Systematic Biology

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 60-66

  Quicke, Donald L J ^a,b   Taylor, Jason ^a   Purvis, Andy ^a,c  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^c NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Heuristic algorithms; Large phylogenies; Parsimony Ratchet; Search time

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOMETRY; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETICS; LOUSE; PHYLOGENY; WASP;

ANIMALS; BIOMETRY; DATABASES, GENETIC; LICE; PHYLOGENY; SOFTWARE DESIGN; WASPS;

EID: 0035527380     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10635150119012     Document Type: Article

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