Misleading results from the use of ambiguity coding to score polymorphisms in higher-level taxa

Systematic Biology

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 613-620

  Simmons, Nancy B ^a  

^a DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

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ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMETRY; CLASSIFICATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; PHYLOGENY;

BIOMETRY; CLASSIFICATION; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC;

EID: 0035527415     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10635150120578     Document Type: Review

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