Cladistic analyses of molecular characters: The good, the bad and the ugly

Contributions to Zoology

Volumn 71, Issue 1-3, 2002, Pages 93-100

  Telford, Maximilian J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MUSEUM OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cladistics; Metazoa; Molecular synapomorphy; Phylogeny; Rare genomic change; RGC

Indexed keywords

METAZOA;

EID: 0036983223     PISSN: 00678546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/18759866-0710103007     Document Type: Review

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