The relative sensitivity of different alignment methods and character codings in sensitivity analysis

Cladistics

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1039-1050

  Simmons, Mark P ^a   Müller, Kai F ^b   Webb, Colleen T ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLADISTICS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA SET; DNA; OPTIMIZATION; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 56649102291     PISSN: 07483007     EISSN: 10960031     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2008.00230.x     Document Type: Article

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