Transformation series as an ideographic character concept

Cladistics

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 23-31

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

^a DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^b Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLADISTICS; PHYLOGENETICS;

EID: 1642326753     PISSN: 07483007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2004.00003.x     Document Type: Article

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