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Data congruence, paedomorphosis and salamanders

BACKGROUND: The retention of ancestral juvenile characters by adult stages of descendants is called paedomorphosis. However, this process can mislead phylogenetic analyses based on morphological data, even in combination with molecular data, because the assessment if a character is primary absent or...

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Autor principal: Struck, Torsten H
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2234405/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17974010
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1742-9994-4-22