Sample size

[Kipling Will]

The minimum would be 3. I think we can all rely on set of relationships
(Beetle(Cow + Fish)), for example.


Joe & Alina wrote:
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> Dear Taxacomers:
>
> Is there a minimum number of taxa from a group to be sampled for a
> cladistic analysis before any classification can be made from the trees
> obtained? How reliable would be the classification based on a cladistic
> analysis that used 10% of the total number of species of a genus?
>
> Thank you for your help
>
> Alina
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