Automation and Evaluation of the SOWH Test of Phylogenetic Topologies with SOWHAT
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Automation and Evaluation of the SOWH Test of Phylogenetic Topologies with SOWHAT Samuel H. Church1,∗, Joseph F. Ryan, Casey W. Dunn 1 Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America 2 Whitney Laboratory for Marine Biosciences, St. Augustine, Florida, United States of America 3 Sars International Centre For Marine Molecular Biology, Bergen, Norway ∗ E-mail: samuel [email protected]
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