Molecular systematics and the 'blender of optimization': Is there a crisis in systematics?

Systematics and Biodiversity

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 481-484

  Williams, David M ^a   Ebach, Malte C ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cladistics; DNA sequences; Molecular systematics; Optimization; Synapomorphy; Systematics

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959748135     PISSN: 14772000     EISSN: 14780933     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14772000.2010.530303     Document Type: Conference Paper

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