Accepting partnership by submission? Morphological phylogenetics in a molecular millennium

Systematic Biology

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 333-342

  Jenner, Ronald A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MUSEUM OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

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BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE ANATOMY; PHYLOGENY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RESEARCH; REVIEW; SAMPLE SIZE;

ANATOMY, COMPARATIVE; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH; SAMPLE SIZE;

EID: 2442492960     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10635150490423962     Document Type: Review

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