Explosions and hot spots in supertree methods

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 253, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 345-348

  Day, William H E ^a   McMorris, F R ^b   Wilkinson, Mark ^c  

^a Port Maitland   (Canada)

^b Illinois Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Consensus; Explosive inference; Phylogenetic inference; Semi closed; Semi strict

Indexed keywords

CENSUS; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; TAXONOMY;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPERTREE METHOD;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 45649083923     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2008.03.024     Document Type: Article

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