Missing Data, Incomplete Taxa, and Phylogenetic Accuracy
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Missing data, incomplete taxa, and phylogenetic accuracy.
The problem of missing data is often considered to be the most important obstacle in reconstructing the phylogeny of fossil taxa and in combining data from diverse characters and taxa for phylogenetic analysis. Empirical and theoretical studies show that including highly incomplete taxa can lead to multiple equally parsimonious trees, poorly resolved consensus trees, and decreased phylogenetic ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Systematic Biology
سال: 2003
ISSN: 1063-5157
DOI: 10.1080/10635150309308