Ancestral state estimation and taxon sampling density

Systematic Biology

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 557-564

  Salisbury, Benjamin A ^a   Kim, Junhyong ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Parsimony; State estimation; Taxon sampling; Tree topology

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMETRY; CLASSIFICATION; EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; BIOMETRY; CLASSIFICATION; EVOLUTION; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 0035527416     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/106351501750435103     Document Type: Article

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