Systematic Biology

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Get checked abstract Chenhong Li, Guoqing Lu, and Guillermo Ortí

Optimal Data Partitioning and a Test Case for Ray-Finned Fishes (Actinopterygii) Based on Ten Nuclear Loci
Syst Biol 2008 57: 519-539; doi:10.1080/10635150802206883 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Hans-Jürgen Bandelt and Mareike Fischer

Perfectly Misleading Distances from Ternary Characters
Syst Biol 2008 57: 540-543; doi:10.1080/10635150802203880 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Alan R. Lemmon and Emily Moriarty Lemmon

A Likelihood Framework for Estimating Phylogeographic History on a Continuous Landscape
Syst Biol 2008 57: 544-561; doi:10.1080/10635150802304761 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Luke J. Harmon, Jane Melville, Allan Larson, and Jonathan B. Losos

The Role of Geography and Ecological Opportunity in the Diversification of Day Geckos (Phelsuma)
Syst Biol 2008 57: 562-573; doi:10.1080/10635150802304779 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Michael R. McGowen, Clay Clark, and John Gatesy

The Vestigial Olfactory Receptor Subgenome of Odontocete Whales: Phylogenetic Congruence between Gene-Tree Reconciliation and Supermatrix Methods
Syst Biol 2008 57: 574-590; doi:10.1080/10635150802304787 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Liam J. Revell, Luke J. Harmon, and David C. Collar

Phylogenetic Signal, Evolutionary Process, and Rate
Syst Biol 2008 57: 591-601; doi:10.1080/10635150802302427 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Edward Susko

On the Distributions of Bootstrap Support and Posterior Distributions for a Star Tree
Syst Biol 2008 57: 602-612; doi:10.1080/10635150802302468 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract G. Aguileta, S. Marthey, H. Chiapello, M.-H. Lebrun, F. Rodolphe, E. Fournier, A. Gendrault-Jacquemard, and T. Giraud

Assessing the Performance of Single-Copy Genes for Recovering Robust Phylogenies
Syst Biol 2008 57: 613-627; doi:10.1080/10635150802306527 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Jason E. Bond and Amy K. Stockman

An Integrative Method for Delimiting Cohesion Species: Finding the Population-Species Interface in a Group of Californian Trapdoor Spiders with Extreme Genetic Divergence and Geographic Structuring
Syst Biol 2008 57: 628-646; doi:10.1080/10635150802302443 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Points of View

Guoliang Li, Mike Steel, and Louxin Zhang

More Taxa Are Not Necessarily Better for the Reconstruction of Ancestral Character States
Syst Biol 2008 57: 647-653; doi:10.1080/10635150802203898 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Samuli Lehtonen

Phylogeny Estimation and Alignment via POY versus Clustal + PAUP*: A Response to Ogden and Rosenberg (2007)
Syst Biol 2008 57: 653-657; doi:10.1080/10635150802302476 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Book Reviews

David A. Morrison

Phylogenetic Trees Made Easy: A How-to Manual, third edition.—Barry G. Hall. 2008. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, Massachusetts. xiv + 230 pp. ISBN 978-0-87893-310-5. $US39.95 £24.99 (paperback)
Syst Biol 2008 57: 658-660; doi:10.1080/10635150802303458 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Vincent S. Smith

The New Taxonomy.—Quentin D. Wheeler (editor). 2008. The Systematics Association Special Volume Series 76. CRC Press, New York. xi + 237 pp. ISBN 978-0-8493-9088-3 (ISBN-10 0-8493-9088-5). US$99.95 £52.99 (hardcover)
Syst Biol 2008 57: 660-663; doi:10.1080/10635150802303508 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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Syst Biol 2008 57: A5; doi:10.1080/10635150802349188 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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