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Phillip Q. Spinks and H. Bradley Shaffer
Conflicting Mitochondrial and Nuclear Phylogenies for the Widely Disjunct Emys (Testudines: Emydidae) Species Complex, and What They Tell Us about Biogeography and Hybridization
Systematic Biology Advance Access published on May 28, 2009
Syst Biol 2009 58: 1-20; doi:10.1093/sysbio/syp005 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Bernhard Misof and Katharina Misof
A Monte Carlo Approach Successfully Identifies Randomness in Multiple Sequence Alignments : A More Objective Means of Data Exclusion
Systematic Biology Advance Access published on May 20, 2009
Syst Biol 2009 58: 21-34; doi:10.1093/sysbio/syp006 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

James H. Degnan, Michael DeGiorgio, David Bryant, and Noah A. Rosenberg
Properties of Consensus Methods for Inferring Species Trees from Gene Trees
Systematic Biology Advance Access published on June 4, 2009
Syst Biol 2009 58: 35-54; doi:10.1093/sysbio/syp008 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Alessia Guggisberg, Guilhem Mansion, and Elena Conti
Disentangling Reticulate Evolution in an Arctic–Alpine Polyploid Complex
Systematic Biology Advance Access published on June 4, 2009
Syst Biol 2009 58: 55-73; doi:10.1093/sysbio/syp010 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Appendices] [Request Permissions]  

David A. Baum
Species as Ranked Taxa
Systematic Biology Advance Access published on May 19, 2009
Syst Biol 2009 58: 74-86; doi:10.1093/sysbio/syp011 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

John J. Wiens
Paleontology, Genomics, and Combined-Data Phylogenetics: Can Molecular Data Improve Phylogeny Estimation for Fossil Taxa?
Systematic Biology Advance Access published on May 19, 2009
Syst Biol 2009 58: 87-99; doi:10.1093/sysbio/syp012 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Simon Joly and Anne Bruneau
Measuring Branch Support in Species Trees Obtained by Gene Tree Parsimony
Systematic Biology Advance Access published on May 25, 2009
Syst Biol 2009 58: 100-113; doi:10.1093/sysbio/syp013 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Christen M. Bossu and Thomas J. Near
Gene Trees Reveal Repeated Instances of Mitochondrial DNA Introgression in Orangethroat Darters (Percidae: Etheostoma)
Systematic Biology Advance Access published on May 22, 2009
Syst Biol 2009 58: 114-129; doi:10.1093/sysbio/syp014 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Alan R. Lemmon, Jeremy M. Brown, Kathrin Stanger-Hall, and Emily Moriarty Lemmon
The Effect of Ambiguous Data on Phylogenetic Estimates Obtained by Maximum Likelihood and Bayesian Inference
Systematic Biology Advance Access published on May 22, 2009
Syst Biol 2009 58: 130-145; doi:10.1093/sysbio/syp017 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Appendices] [Request Permissions]  

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Paul M. Magwene
Statistical Methods for Studying Modularity: A Reply to Mitteroecker and Bookstein
Systematic Biology Advance Access published on May 22, 2009
Syst Biol 2009 58: 146-149; doi:10.1093/sysbio/syp007 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

David A. Morrison
Why Would Phylogeneticists Ignore Computerized Sequence Alignment?
Systematic Biology Advance Access published on March 25, 2009
Syst Biol 2009 58: 150-158; doi:10.1093/sysbio/syp009 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

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Gonzalo Giribet
Perspectives in Animal Phylogeny and Evolution
Systematic Biology Advance Access published on March 12, 2009
Syst Biol 2009 58: 159-160; doi:10.1093/sysbio/syp002 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

David A. Liberles
Reading the Story in DNA: A Beginner's Guide to Molecular Evolution
Systematic Biology Advance Access published on March 12, 2009
Syst Biol 2009 58: 161-162; doi:10.1093/sysbio/syp003 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Julia Sigwart
Coalescent Theory: An Introduction
Systematic Biology Advance Access published on March 24, 2009
Syst Biol 2009 58: 162-165; doi:10.1093/schbul/syp004 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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