Estimation of ancestral states of continuous characters: A computer simulation study

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• Publication year

  1999

• Venue

  Systematic Biology

• Publication date

  1999-07-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Computer Science

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  DOI 10.1080/106351599260210
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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