Properties of majority-rule supertrees

Systematic Biology

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 360-367

  Dong, Jianrong ^a   Fernández Baca, David ^a  

^a Iowa State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENETIC PROCEDURES; PHYLOGENY;

GENETIC TECHNIQUES; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 70350357925     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: 1076836X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syp032     Document Type: Article

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