Concatabominations: Identifying Unstable taxa in morphological phylogenetics using a heuristic extension to safe taxonomic reduction

Systematic Biology

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 137-143

  Siu Ting, Karen ^a,b,c   Pisani, Davide ^b   Creevey, Christopher J ^d   Wilkinson, Mark ^c  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^d ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; PHYLOGENY; PROCEDURES;

ANIMALS; CLASSIFICATION; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 84965135623     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: 1076836X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syu066     Document Type: Article

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