Phylogenetic diversity (PD) and biodiversity conservation: some bioinformatics challenges

Biodiversity conservation addresses information challenges through estimations encapsulated in measures of diversity. A quantitative measure of phylogenetic diversity, “PD”, has been defined as the minimum total length of all the phylogenetic branches required to span a given set of taxa on the phyl...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Daniel P. Faith, Andrew M. Baker
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2006-01-01
Series:Evolutionary Bioinformatics
Subjects:
PD
Online Access:http://la-press.com/article.php?article_id=148