Impact of outgroup inclusion on estimates by parsimony of undirected branching of ingroup phylogenetic lines

Taxon

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 243-257

  Baum, Bernard R ^a   Estabrook, George F ^b  

^a AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

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EID: 0039942357     PISSN: 00400262     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1224664     Document Type: Article

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