Measuring support and finding unsupported relationships in supertrees

Systematic Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 823-831

  Wilkinson, Mark ^a   Pisani, Davide ^a,b   Cotton, James A ^a   Corfe, Ian ^a,c  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; METHODOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW;

CLASSIFICATION; PHYLOGENY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 31344435061     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: 1076836X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10635150590950362     Document Type: Review

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