Why weight?

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 999-1004

  Kjer, Karl M ^a   Swigonova, Zuzana ^a,b   LaPolla, John S ^c   Broughton, Richard E ^d  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c TOWSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Codon weighting; Pseudoreplicate reweighting; Successive weighting; Transversion weighting; Weighted parsimony

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; MAMMAL; METHODOLOGY; PHYLOGENY;

ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; HUMANS; MAMMALS; PHYLOGENY;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 34248634586     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2007.02.028     Document Type: Article

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