The how and why of branch support and partitioned branch support, with a new index to assess partition incongruence

Cladistics

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 378-386

  Brower, Andrew V Z ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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BUTTERFLY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA;

PAPILIONOIDEA;

EID: 33747591870     PISSN: 07483007     EISSN: 10960031     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2006.00113.x     Document Type: Review

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