Counterexample to a claim about the reconstruction of ancestral character states

Systematic Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 693-695

  Lucena, Brian ^a   Haussler, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; REVIEW;

BASE SEQUENCE; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 25144501916     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: 1076836X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10635150590950344     Document Type: Review

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