Systematic Biology

Editorial

Roderic D. M. Page and Jack Sullivan

The Expanding Contributions of Systematic Biology
Syst Biol 2008 57: 1-3; doi:10.1080/10635150701856671 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Regular Articles

Get checked abstract Richard H. Ree and Stephen A. Smith

Maximum Likelihood Inference of Geographic Range Evolution by Dispersal, Local Extinction, and Cladogenesis
Syst Biol 2008 57: 4-14; doi:10.1080/10635150701883881 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Thomas A. Deméré, Michael R. McGowen, Annalisa Berta, and John Gatesy

Morphological and Molecular Evidence for a Stepwise Evolutionary Transition from Teeth to Baleen in Mysticete Whales
Syst Biol 2008 57: 15-37; doi:10.1080/10635150701884632 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Shuguang Jian, Pamela S. Soltis, Matthew A. Gitzendanner, Michael J. Moore, Ruiqi Li, Tory A. Hendry, Yin-Long Qiu, Amit Dhingra, Charles D. Bell, and Douglas E. Soltis

Resolving an Ancient, Rapid Radiation in Saxifragales
Syst Biol 2008 57: 38-57; doi:10.1080/10635150801888871 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Heather M. Hines

Historical Biogeography, Divergence Times, and Diversification Patterns of Bumble Bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Bombus)
Syst Biol 2008 57: 58-75; doi:10.1080/10635150801898912 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Jennifer Ripplinger and Jack Sullivan

Does Choice in Model Selection Affect Maximum Likelihood Analysis?
Syst Biol 2008 57: 76-85; doi:10.1080/10635150801898920 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Clemens Lakner, Paul van der Mark, John P. Huelsenbeck, Bret Larget, and Fredrik Ronquist

Efficiency of Markov Chain Monte Carlo Tree Proposals in Bayesian Phylogenetics
Syst Biol 2008 57: 86-103; doi:10.1080/10635150801886156 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Jessica W. Leigh, Edward Susko, Manuela Baumgartner, and Andrew J. Roger

Testing Congruence in Phylogenomic Analysis
Syst Biol 2008 57: 104-115; doi:10.1080/10635150801910436 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Michael Hardman and Lotta M. Hardman

The Relative Importance of Body Size and Paleoclimatic Change as Explanatory Variables Influencing Lineage Diversification Rate: An Evolutionary Analysis of Bullhead Catfishes (Siluriformes: Ictaluridae)
Syst Biol 2008 57: 116-130; doi:10.1080/10635150801902193 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Noah A. Rosenberg and Randa Tao

Discordance of Species Trees with Their Most Likely Gene Trees: The Case of Five Taxa
Syst Biol 2008 57: 131-140; doi:10.1080/10635150801905535 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Stefan Ekman, Heidi L. Andersen, and Mats Wedin

The Limitations of Ancestral State Reconstruction and the Evolution of the Ascus in the Lecanorales (Lichenized Ascomycota)
Syst Biol 2008 57: 141-156; doi:10.1080/10635150801910451 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Points of View

Philip D. Cantino and Richard G. Olmstead

Application of Phylogenetically Defined Names Does Not Require That Every Specifier Be Present on a Tree
Syst Biol 2008 57: 157-160; doi:10.1080/10635150701883873 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Tracy A. Heath, Derrick J. Zwickl, Junhyong Kim, and David M. Hillis

Taxon Sampling Affects Inferences of Macroevolutionary Processes from Phylogenetic Trees
Syst Biol 2008 57: 160-166; doi:10.1080/10635150701884640 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

A. Michelle Lawing, Jesse M. Meik, and Walter E. Schargel

Coding Meristic Characters for Phylogenetic Analysis: A Comparison of Step-Matrix Gap-Weighting and Generalized Frequency Coding
Syst Biol 2008 57: 167-173; doi:10.1080/10635150801898938 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jeremy E. Martin and Michael J. Benton

Crown Clades in Vertebrate Nomenclature: Correcting the Definition of Crocodylia
Syst Biol 2008 57: 173-181; doi:10.1080/10635150801910469 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Book Reviews

Timothy P. Craig

Evolutionary Ecology of Parasites, second edition.—Robert Poulin. 2006. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey. 342 pp. ISBN 978-0-691-12085-0. $US39.50 £23.95 (paperback). ISBN 978-0-691-12084-3. $US99.50 £59.95 (hardback)
Syst Biol 2008 57: 182-183; doi:10.1080/10635150701856689 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Danny Yee

On Evolution.—John C. Avise. 2007. John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland. 200 pp. ISBN 978-0-8018-8688-1. $US60 (hardback). ISBN 978-0-8018-8689-8. $US29.95 (paperback)
Syst Biol 2008 57: 184; doi:10.1080/10635150701860236 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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Syst Biol 2008 57: A-1; doi:10.1080/10635150801963740 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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