Monophyly, Taxon Sampling, and the Nature of Ranks in the Classification of Orb-Weaving Spiders (Araneae: Araneoidea).

abstract：:Siparunaceae comprise Glossocalyx with one species in West Africa and Siparuna with 65 species in the neotropics; all have unisexual flowers, and 15 species are monoecious, 50 dioecious. Parsimony and maximum likelihood analyses of combined nuclear ribosomal ITS and chloroplast trnL-trnF intergenic spacer sequences yi...

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： Renner SS,Won H

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Comprehensive phylogenetic analyses utilize data from distinct sources, including nuclear, mitochondrial, and plastid molecular sequences and morphology. Such heterogeneous datasets are likely to require distinct models of analysis, given the different histories of mutational biases operating on these characters. The ...

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： Dowton M,Austin AD

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We review Bayesian approaches to model testing in general and to the assessment of topological hypotheses in particular. We show that the standard way of setting up Bayes factor tests of the monophyly of a group, or the placement of a sample sequence in a known reference tree, can be misleading. The reason for this is...

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： Bergsten J,Nilsson AN,Ronquist F

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polyploidization is an important speciation mechanism in the barley genus Hordeum. To analyze evolutionary changes after allopolyploidization, knowledge of parental relationships is essential. One chloroplast and 12 nuclear single-copy loci were amplified by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) in all Hordeum plus six out-...

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： Brassac J,Blattner FR

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:All methods proposed to date for mapping landmark configurations on a phylogenetic tree start from an alignment generated by methods that make no use of phylogenetic information, usually by superimposing all configurations against a consensus configuration. In order to properly interpret differences between landmark c...

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： Catalano SA,Goloboff PA

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between phylogenetic accuracy and congruence between data partitions collected from the same taxa was explored for mitochondrial DNA sequences from two well-supported vertebrate phylogenies. An iterative procedure was adopted whereby accuracy, phylogenetic signal, and congruence were measured before a...

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： Cunningham CW

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Noah's Ark Problem (NAP) is a comprehensive cost-effectiveness methodology for biodiversity conservation that was introduced by Weitzman (1998) and utilizes the phylogenetic tree containing the taxa of interest to assess biodiversity. Given a set of taxa, each of which has a particular survival probability that ca...

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： Hartmann K,Steel M

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phylogenetic relationships inferred from multilocus organellar and nuclear DNA data are often difficult to resolve because of evolutionary conflicts among gene trees. However, conflicting or "outlier" associations (i.e., linked pairs of "operational terminal units" in two phylogenies) among these data sets often provi...

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： Pérez-Escobar OA,Balbuena JA,Gottschling M

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Modeling discrete phenotypic traits for either ancestral character state reconstruction or morphology-based phylogenetic inference suffers from ambiguities of character coding, homology assessment, dependencies, and selection of adequate models. These drawbacks occur because trait evolution is driven by two key proces...

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： Tarasov S

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We conducted a geometric morphometric analysis of interspecific body shape variation among representatives of 31 species of darters (Pisces: Percidae) to determine whether there is evidence of a phylogenetic effect in body shape variation. Cartesian transformation grids representing relative shape differences of indiv...

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： Guill JM,Heins DC,Hood CS

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sequence divergence for segments of three mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) genes encoding the 12S and 16S ribosomal RNA and cytochrome b was examined in newts belonging to the genus Euproctus (E. asper, E. montanus, E. platycephalus) and in three other species belonging to the same family (Salamandridae), Triturus carnifex, ...

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： Caccone A,Milinkovitch MC,Sbordoni V,Powell JR

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a phylogenetic hypothesis and novel, rank-free classification for all extant species of softshell turtles (Testudines:Trionychidae). Our data set included DNA sequence data from two mitochondrial protein-coding genes and a approximately 1-kb nuclear intron for 23 of 26 recognized species, and 59 previously ...

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： Engstrom TN,Shaffer HB,McCord WP

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We prove that the slope parameter of the ordinary least squares regression of phylogenetically independent contrasts (PICs) conducted through the origin is identical to the slope parameter of the method of generalized least squares (GLSs) regression under a Brownian motion model of evolution. This equivalence has seve...

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： Blomberg SP,Lefevre JG,Wells JA,Waterhouse M

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anthozoan cnidarians (corals and sea anemones) include some of the world's most important foundation species, capable of building massive reef complexes that support entire ecosystems. Although previous molecular phylogenetic analyses have revealed widespread homoplasy of the morphological characters traditionally use...

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： McFadden CS,Quattrini AM,Brugler MR,Cowman PF,Dueñas LF,Kitahara MV,Paz-García DA,Reimer JD,Rodríguez E

更新日期：2021-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The phylogenetic comparative method uses estimates of evolutionary relationships to explicitly model the covariance structure of interspecific data. By accounting for common ancestry, the coevolution between 2 or more traits, as a response to one another or to environmental variables, can be studied without confoundin...

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： Stone EA

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Species are the starting point for most studies of ecology and evolution, but the proper circumscription of species can be extremely difficult in morphologically variable lineages, and there are still few convincing examples of molecularly informed species delimitation in plants. Here, we focus on the Viburnum nudum c...

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： Spriggs EL,Eaton DAR,Sweeney PW,Schlutius C,Edwards EJ,Donoghue MJ

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Southern Hemisphere has traditionally been considered as having a fundamentally vicariant history. The common trans-Pacific disjunctions are usually explained by the sequential breakup of the supercontinent Gondwana during the last 165 million years, causing successive division of an ancestral biota. However, rece...

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： Sanmartín I,Ronquist F

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genomic data have had a profound impact on nearly every biological discipline. In systematics and phylogenetics, the thousands of loci that are now being sequenced can be analyzed under the multispecies coalescent model (MSC) to explicitly account for gene tree discordance due to incomplete lineage sorting (ILS). Howe...

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： Blair C,Ané C

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four low-copy nuclear DNA intron regions from the second largest subunits of the RNA polymerase gene family (RPA2, RPB2, RPD2a, and RPD2b), the internal transcribed spacers (ITSs) from the nuclear ribosomal regions, and the rps16 intron from the chloroplast were sequenced and used in a phylogenetic analysis of 29 spec...

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： Popp M,Oxelman B

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There has long been ambiguity in the use of the term tree in phylogenetic systematics, which is a continuous source of misinterpretation of evolutionary relationships. The basic problem is that while many trees with phylogenetic or evolutionary relevance, such as cladograms, are consistent with graph theory, tree-like...

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： Podani J

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rapidly evolving pathogens, such as viruses and bacteria, accumulate genetic change at a similar timescale over which their epidemiological processes occur, such that, it is possible to make inferences about their infectious spread using phylogenetic time-trees. For this purpose it is necessary to choose a phylodynami...

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： Duchene S,Bouckaert R,Duchene DA,Stadler T,Drummond AJ

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conserved genes have found their way into the mainstream of molecular systematics. Many of these genes are members of multigene families. A difficulty with using single genes of multigene families for phylogenetic inference is that genes from one species may be paralogous to those from another taxon. We focus attentio...

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： Martin AP,Burg TM

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phylogenomic analyses have helped resolve many recalcitrant relationships in the angiosperm tree of life, yet phylogenetic resolution of the backbone of the Leguminosae, one of the largest and most economically and ecologically important families, remains poor due to generally limited molecular data and incomplete tax...

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： Zhang R,Wang YH,Jin JJ,Stull GW,Bruneau A,Cardoso D,De Queiroz LP,Moore MJ,Zhang SD,Chen SY,Wang J,Li DZ,Yi TS

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The dominance of angiosperms has played a direct role in the diversification of insects, especially Coleoptera. The shift to angiosperm feeding from other diets is likely to have increased the rate of speciation in Phytophaga. However, Phytophaga is only one of many hyperdiverse lineages of beetles and studies of host...

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： Leschen RA,Buckley TR

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mouse lemurs (Microcebus) are a radiation of morphologically cryptic primates distributed throughout Madagascar for which the number of recognized species has exploded in the past two decades. This taxonomic revision has prompted understandable concern that there has been substantial oversplitting in the mouse lemur c...

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： Poelstra J,Salmona J,Tiley GP,Schüßler D,Blanco MB,Andriambeloson JB,Bouchez O,Campbell CR,Etter PD,Hohenlohe PA,Hunnicutt KE,Iribar A,Johnson EA,Kappeler PM,Larsen PA,Manzi S,Ralison JM,Randrianambinina B,Rasoloariso

更新日期：2020-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:This article reviews the various models that have been used to describe the relationships between gene trees and species trees. Molecular phylogeny has focused mainly on improving models for the reconstruction of gene trees based on sequence alignments. Yet, most phylogeneticists seek to reveal the history of species....

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： Szöllősi GJ,Tannier E,Daubin V,Boussau B

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous phylogenetic analyses of tetrapod 18S ribosomal RNA (rRNA) sequences support the grouping of birds with mammals, whereas other molecular data, and morphological and paleontological data favor the grouping of birds with crocodiles. The 18S rRNA gene has consequently been considered odd, serving as "definitive ...

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： Xia X,Xie Z,Kjer KM

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Species delimitation and species tree inference are difficult problems in cases of recent divergence, especially when different loci have different histories. This paper quantifies the difficulty of jointly finding the division of samples to species and estimating a species tree without constraining the possible assig...

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： O'Meara BC

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Even though relationships within Annelida are poorly understood, Eunicida is one of only a few major annelid lineages well supported by morphology. The seven recognized eunicid families possess sclerotized jaws that include mandibles and a maxillary apparatus. The maxillary apparatuses vary in shape and number of elem...

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： Struck TH,Purschke G,Halanych KM

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Whereas examples of insular speciation within the endemic-rich Macaronesian hotspot flora have been documented, the phylogeography of recently evolved plants in the region has received little attention. The Macaronesian red fescues constitute a narrow and recent radiation of four closely related diploid species distri...

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： Díaz-Pérez A,Sequeira M,Santos-Guerra A,Catalán P

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00