The geometric mean length, a new statistic to describe the distribution of character steps on a tree

Cladistics

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 219-222

  Grandcolas, Philippe ^a   Robillard, Tony ^a   D'Haese, Cyrille ^a   Desutter Grandcolas, Laure ^a   Guilbert, Eric ^a   Murienne, Jérôme ^a  

^a MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

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Indexed keywords

CLADISTICS; EVOLUTION; SPECIES EVENNESS;

EID: 3543013225     PISSN: 07483007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2004.00017.x     Document Type: Article

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