A new technique for identifying sequence heterochrony

Systematic Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 230-240

  Jeffery, Jonathan E ^a   Bininda Emonds, Olaf R P ^b   Coates, Michael I ^c   Richardson, Michael K ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Developmental sequences; Event pairing; Heterochrony; Parsimov program; Principle of parsimony

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; METHODOLOGY; MORPHOGENESIS; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TIME;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CLASSIFICATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; MORPHOGENESIS; PHYLOGENY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 19044371640     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10635150590923227     Document Type: Article

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