Construction and verification of a large phylogeny of marsupials

Australian Mammalogy

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 9-21

  Lapointe, François Joseph ^a,b   Kirsch, John A W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b Succursale Centre ville ^*  (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Congruence; Data combination; Marsupialia; Monotremata; Supertrees; Validation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0344675463     PISSN: 03100049     EISSN: 18367402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/AM01009     Document Type: Article

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