The tree of life web project

Zootaxa

Volumn , Issue 1668, 2007, Pages 19-40

  Maddison, David R ^a   Schulz, Katja Sabine ^a   Maddison, Wayne P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Digital dissemination; Evolutionary tree; Genetic history; Linnaeus; Online collaboration; Phylogeny; Tolweb.org; Tree of life

Indexed keywords

EID: 38349190229     PISSN: 11755326     EISSN: 11755334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1668.1.4     Document Type: Review

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