Morphology to the rescue: molecular data and the signal of morphological characters in combined phylogenetic analyses—a case study from mysmenid spiders (Araneae, Mysmenidae), with comments on the evolution of web architecture

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  2011

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  Cladistics

• Publication date

  2011-06-01

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  Biology, Medicine

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  DOI 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2010.00332.xPMID 34875780
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