I have a couple of questions concerning the UPGMA method
(unweighted pair-group method using arithmetic averages) as applied to
phylogeny reconstruction:
Who is credited as being the author of UPGMA?
Who was the first person to advocate the use of UPGMA as a means of
phylogenetic reconstruction or use it to solve a historical/phylogenetic
problem? [And why aren't any of these papers cited by systematic
biologists who use the technique?]
just curious
byron
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Byron J. Adams
Department of Plant Pathology
406 Plant Sciences Hall
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lab (402) 472 5598
fax (402) 472-2853
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