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Plausibility of inferred ancestral phenotypes and the evaluation of alternative models of limb evolution in scincid lizards.

Biology letters - 23 Jun 2010

Skinner Adam, Lee Michael S Y

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Phylogenetic approaches to inferring ancestral character states are becoming increasingly sophisticated; however, the potential remains for available methods to yield strongly supported but inaccurate ancestral state estimates. The consistency of ancestral states inferred for two or more characte...

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PMID: 20007166
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2009.0840
PMCID: PMC2880043

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