A likelihood approach to estimating phylogeny from discrete morphological character data

Systematic Biology

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 913-925

  Lewis, Paul O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Discrete morphological character; Markov model; maximum likelihood; phylogeny

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMETRY; PHYLOGENY; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BIOMETRY; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 0035527396     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/106351501753462876     Document Type: Article

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