Reply to Englund: Molecular evolution and diversification - Counting species is better than counting nodes when the phylogeny is unknown

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 17, 2011, Pages

  Lanfear, Robert ^a   Bromham, Lindell ^a   Ho, Simon Y W ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRD; CLADISTICS; LETTER; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES EXTINCTION;

EID: 79955558282     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1101940108     Document Type: Letter

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