WARACS: Wrappers to Automate the Reconstruction of Ancestral Character States
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WARACS: Wrappers to Automate the Reconstruction of Ancestral Character States1
PREMISE OF THE STUDY Reconstructions of ancestral character states are among the most widely used analyses for evaluating the morphological, cytological, or ecological evolution of an organismic lineage. The software application Mesquite remains the most popular application for such reconstructions among plant scientists, even though its support for automating complex analyses is limited. A sof...
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عنوان ژورنال: Applications in Plant Sciences
سال: 2016
ISSN: 2168-0450
DOI: 10.3732/apps.1500120