Systematic Biology

Editorial

Chris Simon and Rod Page

The Past and Future of Systematic Biology
Syst Biol 2005 54: 1-3; doi:10.1080/10635150590930463 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Articles

Get checked abstract Alfried P. Vogler, Anabela Cardoso, and Timothy G. Barraclough

Exploring Rate Variation Among and Within Sites in a Densely Sampled Tree: Species Level Phylogenetics of North American Tiger Beetles (Genus Cicindela)
Syst Biol 2005 54: 4-20; doi:10.1080/10635150590906028 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Yong-Ming Yuan, Sébastien Wohlhauser, Michael Möller, Jens Klackenberg, Martin W. Callmander, and Philippe Küpfer

Phylogeny and Biogeography of Exacum (Gentianaceae): A Disjunctive Distribution in the Indian Ocean Basin Resulted from Long Distance Dispersal and Extensive Radiation
Syst Biol 2005 54: 21-34; doi:10.1080/10635150590905867 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Kevin G. McCracken and Michael D. Sorenson

Is Homoplasy or Lineage Sorting the Source of Incongruent mtDNA and Nuclear Gene Trees in the Stiff-Tailed Ducks (Nomonyx-Oxyura)?
Syst Biol 2005 54: 35-55; doi:10.1080/10635150590910249 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Richard C. Winkworth, David Bryant, Peter J. Lockhart, David Havell, and Vincent Moulton

Biogeographic Interpretation of Splits Graphs: Least Squares Optimization of Branch Lengths
Syst Biol 2005 54: 56-65; doi:10.1080/10635150590906046 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Barbara R. Holland, Frédéric Delsuc, Vincent Moulton, and Allan Baker

Visualizing Conflicting Evolutionary Hypotheses in Large Collections of Trees: Using Consensus Networks to Study the Origins of Placentals and Hexapods
Syst Biol 2005 54: 66-76; doi:10.1080/10635150590906055 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Takeshi Sasaki, Masato Nikaido, Healy Hamilton, Mutsuo Goto, Hidehiro Kato, Naohisa Kanda, Luis A. Pastene, Ying Cao, R. Ewan Fordyce, Masami Hasegawa, and Norihiro Okada

Mitochondrial Phylogenetics and Evolution of Mysticete Whales
Syst Biol 2005 54: 77-90; doi:10.1080/10635150590905939 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract John J. Wiens, Ronald M. Bonett, and Paul T. Chippindale

Ontogeny Discombobulates Phylogeny: Paedomorphosis and Higher-Level Salamander Relationships
Syst Biol 2005 54: 91-110; doi:10.1080/10635150590906037 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Kim Roelants and Franky Bossuyt

Archaeobatrachian Paraphyly and Pangaean Diversification of Crown-Group Frogs
Syst Biol 2005 54: 111-126; doi:10.1080/10635150590905894 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Andrew P. Jackson

The Effect of Paralogous Lineages on the Application of Reconciliation Analysis by Cophylogeny Mapping
Syst Biol 2005 54: 127-145; doi:10.1080/10635150590905911 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Cécile Ané and Michael J. Sanderson

Missing the Forest for the Trees: Phylogenetic Compression and Its Implications for Inferring Complex Evolutionary Histories
Syst Biol 2005 54: 146-157; doi:10.1080/10635150590905984 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Points of View

John S. Sparks and Wm. Leo Smith

Freshwater Fishes, Dispersal Ability, and Nonevidence: "Gondwana Life Rafts" to the Rescue
Syst Biol 2005 54: 158-165; doi:10.1080/10635150590906019 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Nathan D. Smith and Alan H. Turner

Morphology's Role in Phylogeny Reconstruction: Perspectives from Paleontology
Syst Biol 2005 54: 166-173; doi:10.1080/10635150590906000 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Book Reviews

Matthew J. Phillips

Telling the Evolutionary Time: Molecular Clocks and the Fossil Record.—Philip C. J. Donoghue and M. Paul Smith, editors.
Syst Biol 2005 54: 174-176; doi:10.1080/10635150590905858 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Gonzalo Giribet

TNT: Tree Analysis Using New Technology
Syst Biol 2005 54: 176-178; doi:10.1080/10635150590905830 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Announcements

Announcements
Syst Biol 2005 54: 179-181; doi:10.1080/10635150590930472 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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