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Systematic Biology 2006 55(4):677-685; doi:10.1080/10635150600899798
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© 2006 Society of Systematic Biologists

The Effect of Combining Molecular and Morphological Data in Published Phylogenetic Analyses

Edited by Rod Page: Associate Editor

Alexandra H. Wortley1,2 and Robert W. Scotland1

1 Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3RB, UK E-mail: robert.scotland@plants.ox.ac.uk (R.W.S.)

Received April 23, 2005; Revised December 11, 2005; Accepted May 3, 2006
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Understanding the natural world is not possible without an extensive knowledge of organismal morphology. The encyclopedia of life (Wilson, 2003) would be an empty, sterile list without detailed information about the full range of morphological diversity. Morphology plays a pivotal role in our understanding of life cycles, geographical distributions, identification, conservation status, evolution, development, and species delimitation (Buzgo et al., 2004; Endress, 2000; Kaplan, 2001; Scotland et al., 2003a). Nonetheless, there remains considerable debate about the precise role of morphology in one particular area of biology—computer-based phylogenetic inference (Baker and Gatesy, 2002; Hillis and Wiens, 2000; Jenner, 2004; Scotland et al., 2003b; Smith and Turner, 2005; Wortley and Scotland, 2006; Wiens, 2004).

One widespread contemporary use of morphological data in phylogeny reconstruction is in combined analysis with molecular sequence data (recent examples include Aagesen and . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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