Data exploration in phylogenetic inference: Scientific, heuristic, or neither

Cladistics

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 379-418

  Grant, Taran ^a,b   Kluge, Arnold G ^c  

^a DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLADISTICS; DATA PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; PHYLOGENETICS;

EID: 0038287878     PISSN: 07483007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2003.tb00311.x     Document Type: Review

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