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Get checked abstract Susanne Schulmeister

Inconsistency of Maximum Parsimony Revisited
Syst Biol 2004 53: 521-528; doi:10.1080/10635150490445788 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract David Degusta

A Method for Estimating the Relative Importance of Characters in Cladistic Analyses
Syst Biol 2004 53: 529-532; doi:10.1080/10635150490470320 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Scott J. Steppan, Ronald M. Adkins, and Joel Anderson

Phylogeny and Divergence-Date Estimates of Rapid Radiations in Muroid Rodents Based on Multiple Nuclear Genes
Syst Biol 2004 53: 533-553; doi:10.1080/10635150490468701 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Joan Pons, Timothy G. Barraclough, Kosmas Theodorides, Anabela Cardoso, and Alfried P. Vogler

Using Exon and Intron Sequences of the Gene Mp20 to Resolve Basal Relationships in Cicindela (Coleoptera:Cicindelidae)
Syst Biol 2004 53: 554-570; doi:10.1080/10635150490472940 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Mark Pagel and Andrew Meade

A Phylogenetic Mixture Model for Detecting Pattern-Heterogeneity in Gene Sequence or Character-State Data
Syst Biol 2004 53: 571-581; doi:10.1080/10635150490468675 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Yuji Inagaki, Alastair G. B. Simpson, Joel B. Dacks, and Andrew J. Roger

Phylogenetic Artifacts Can be Caused by Leucine, Serine, and Arginine Codon Usage Heterogeneity: Dinoflagellate Plastid Origins as a Case Study
Syst Biol 2004 53: 582-593; doi:10.1080/10635150490468756 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Michel Laurin

The Evolution of Body Size, Cope's Rule and the Origin of Amniotes
Syst Biol 2004 53: 594-622; doi:10.1080/10635150490445706 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Simon Y.W. Ho and Lars S. Jermiin

Tracing the Decay of the Historical Signal in Biological Sequence Data
Syst Biol 2004 53: 623-637; doi:10.1080/10635150490503035 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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Lars S. Jermiin, Simon Y.W. Ho, Faisal Ababneh, John Robinson, and Anthony W.D. Larkum

The Biasing Effect of Compositional Heterogeneity on Phylogenetic Estimates May be Underestimated
Syst Biol 2004 53: 638-643; doi:10.1080/10635150490468648 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Elliott Sober

The Contest Between Parsimony and Likelihood
Syst Biol 2004 53: 644-653; doi:10.1080/10635150490468657 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

John J. Wiens

The Role of Morphological Data in Phylogeny Reconstruction
Syst Biol 2004 53: 653-661; doi:10.1080/10635150490472959 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Book Reviews

Kenneth M. Halanych

Invertebrates; Invertebrate Zoology: A Functional Evolutionary Approach
Syst Biol 2004 53: 662-664; doi:10.1080/10635150490472977 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Mark E. Siddall

Invertebrates.—R.C. Brusca and G. J. Brusca. 2003. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, Massachusetts. xix + 936 pp. ISBN 0–87893–097–3. $109.95(cloth).
Syst Biol 2004 53: 664-666; doi:10.1080/10635150490472968 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Vincent S. Smith

The Chewing Lice: World Checklist and Biological Overview.—R. D. Price, R. A. Hellenthal, R. L. Palma, K. P. Johnson, D. H. Clayton. 2003. Illinois Natural History Survey Special Publication 24. x+501 pp. ISBN 1–882932–08–0. $35.00 (hard cover).
Syst Biol 2004 53: 666-668; doi:10.1080/10635150490468521 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

David Penny

Inferring Phylogenies.—Joseph Felsenstein. 2003. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, Massachusetts.
Syst Biol 2004 53: 669-670; doi:10.1080/10635150490468530 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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Syst Biol 2004 53: 671; doi:10.1080/10635150490513106 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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