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Get checked abstract Mark Pagel, Andrew Meade, and Daniel Barker

Bayesian Estimation of Ancestral Character States on Phylogenies
Syst Biol 2004 53: 673-684; doi:10.1080/10635150490522232 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Sergei L. Kosakovsky Pond and Spencer V. Muse

Column Sorting: Rapid Calculation of the Phylogenetic Likelihood Function
Syst Biol 2004 53: 685-692; doi:10.1080/10635150490522269 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Tag N. Engstrom, H. Bradley Shaffer, and William P. McCord

Multiple Data Sets, High Homoplasy, and the Phylogeny of Softshell Turtles (Testudines: Trionychidae)
Syst Biol 2004 53: 693-710; doi:10.1080/10635150490503053 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Bjarte H. Jordal and Godfrey M. Hewitt

The Origin and Radiation of Macaronesian Beetles Breeding in Euphorbia: The Relative Importance of Multiple Data Partitions and Population Sampling
Syst Biol 2004 53: 711-734; doi:10.1080/10635150490468710 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Ted M. Townsend, Allan Larson, Edward Louis, and J. Robert Macey

Molecular Phylogenetics of Squamata: The Position of Snakes, Amphisbaenians, and Dibamids, and the Root of the Squamate Tree
Syst Biol 2004 53: 735-757; doi:10.1080/10635150490522340 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Lindell Bromham and Megan Woolfit

Explosive Radiations and the Reliability of Molecular Clocks: Island Endemic Radiations as a Test Case
Syst Biol 2004 53: 758-766; doi:10.1080/10635150490522278 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Marcos Pérez-Losada, Georgina Bond-Buckup, Carlos G. Jara, and Keith A. Crandall

Molecular Systematics and Biogeography of the Southern South American Freshwater "Crabs" Aegla (Decapoda: Anomura: Aeglidae) Using Multiple Heuristic Tree Search Approaches
Syst Biol 2004 53: 767-780; doi:10.1080/10635150490522331 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Bryan C. Carstens, Angela L. Stevenson, Jeremiah D. Degenhardt, and Jack Sullivan

Testing Nested Phylogenetic and Phylogeographic Hypotheses in the Plethodon vandykei Species Group
Syst Biol 2004 53: 781-792; doi:10.1080/10635150490522296 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract David Posada and Thomas R. Buckley

Model Selection and Model Averaging in Phylogenetics: Advantages of Akaike Information Criterion and Bayesian Approaches Over Likelihood Ratio Tests
Syst Biol 2004 53: 793-808; doi:10.1080/10635150490522304 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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Arne Ø. Mooers

Effects of Tree Shape on the Accuracy of Maximum Likelihood–Based Ancestor Reconstructions
Syst Biol 2004 53: 809-814; doi:10.1080/10635150490502595 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Sean P. Modesto and Jason S. Anderson

The Phylogenetic Definition of Reptilia
Syst Biol 2004 53: 815-821; doi:10.1080/10635150490503026 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Agnes Dettai, Nicolas Bailly, Régine Vignes-Lebbe, and Guillaume Lecointre

Metacanthomorpha: Essay on a Phylogeny-Oriented Database for Morphology—The Acanthomorph (Teleostei) Example
Syst Biol 2004 53: 822-834; doi:10.1080/10635150490522313 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Book Reviews

Yong-Ming Yuan and Jason R. Grant

Gentianaceae: Systematics and Natural History.—Lena Struwe and Victor A. Albert (eds.). 2002. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, CB2 2RU, UK. x + 652 pp. ISBN 0–521–80999–1. Hardback. £95 ($130).
Syst Biol 2004 53: 835-838; doi:10.1080/10635150490522322 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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