Consequences of different null models on the tree shape bias of supertree methods

Systematic Biology

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 218-225

  Kupczok, Anne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

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ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; PHYLOGENY;

CLASSIFICATION; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 79951569162     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: 1076836X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syq086     Document Type: Article

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