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Heterotachy and long-branch attraction in phylogenetics

✍ Scribed by Hervé Philippe; Yan Zhou; Henner Brinkmann; Nicolas Rodrigue; Frédéric Delsuc


Book ID
115002058
Publisher
BioMed Central
Year
2005
Tongue
English
Weight
580 KB
Volume
5
Category
Article
ISSN
1471-2148

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