Coherence, correspondence, and the renaissance of morphology in phylogenetic systematics

Cladistics

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 528-544

  Assis, Leandro C S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

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CLASSIFICATION; MORPHOLOGY; ONTOGENY; PHYLOGENY; RECONSTRUCTION; TAXONOMY; TOPOLOGY;

EID: 70349204141     PISSN: 07483007     EISSN: 10960031     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2009.00261.x     Document Type: Article

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