Phylogenetic prediction to identify “evolutionary singularities”

Modern Phylogenetic Comparative Methods and their Application in Evolutionary Biology

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 481-514

  Nunn, Charles L ^a   Zhu, Li ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84949777127     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-662-43550-2_21     Document Type: Chapter

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