Can incomplete taxa rescue phylogenetic analyses from long-branch attraction?

Systematic Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 731-742

  Wiens, John J ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Combining data; Fossils; Incomplete taxa; Missing data; Phylogenetic accuracy; Simulations; Taxon sampling

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; SAMPLE SIZE;

CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; SAMPLE SIZE;

EID: 30344464074     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: 1076836X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10635150500234583     Document Type: Article

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