title: Coding meristic characters for phylogenetic analysis: a comparison of step-matrix gap-weighting and generalized frequency coding.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology, The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas 76019, USA.
authors.forename: A Michelle
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Lawing
authors.forename: Jesse M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Meik
authors.forename: Walter E
authors.initials: WE
authors.lastname: Schargel
mesh_terms: D019295:Computational Biology / Q000379:methods*; D003198:Computer Simulation; D008954:Models, Biological; D010802:Phylogeny