Treebase: An R package for discovery, access and manipulation of online phylogenies

Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1060-1066

  Boettiger, Carl ^a   Temple Lang, Duncan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Application programming interface; Database; Programmatic; R; Software; TreeBASE; Workflow

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871007739     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2041210X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.2041-210X.2012.00247.x     Document Type: Article

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