Naming taxa from cladograms: A cautionary tale

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 317-330

  Dubois, Alain ^a  

^a USM 0602 Taxonomie and Collections   (France)

Author keywords

Characters; Code; Frogs; Onomatophore based and definition based nomenclatures; Phylocode; Phylogeny; Rana; Ranks; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIA; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; NOMENCLATURE; PHYLOGENY; REPRODUCIBILITY;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALS; CLASSIFICATION; PHYLOGENY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TERMINOLOGY;

ANURA; LITHOBATES; NUDA; RANIDAE;

EID: 33750979601     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2006.06.007     Document Type: Article

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