Picante: R tools for integrating phylogenies and ecology

Bioinformatics

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1463-1464

  Kembel, Steven W ^a   Cowan, Peter D ^b   Helmus, Matthew R ^c   Cornwell, William K ^d   Morlon, Helene ^b   Ackerly, David D ^b   Blomberg, Simon P ^e   Webb, Campbell O ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^f HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; ECOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY;

BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; SOFTWARE;

EID: 77953882250     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 14602059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btq166     Document Type: Article

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