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Polyphyly of the Pikeminnows (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) Inferred Using Mitochondrial DNA Sequences, Transactions of the American Fisheries Society (2010)

The phylogenetic relationships of the Colorado pikeminnow Ptychocheilus lucius, northern pikeminnow P. oregonensis, Sacramento pikeminnow...

 

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Combined morphological and molecular phylogeny of Ephemerellidae (Ephemeroptera), Zootaxa (2009)

This study represents the first combined molecular and morphological analysis for the mayfly family Ephemerellidae...

 

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Towards a new paradigm in mayfly phylogeny (Ephemeroptera): combined analysis of morphological and molecular data, Systematic Entomology (2009)

This study represents the first formal morphological and combined (morphological and molecular) phylogenetic analyses of...

 

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Molecules, Morphology and Fossils: A Comprehensive Approach to Odonate phylogeny and the evolution of the Odonate Wing, Cladistics (2008)

We undertook a comprehensive morphological and molecular phylogenetic analysis of dragonfly phylogeny, examining both extant...

 

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Pisciforma, Setisura, and Furcatergalia (Order: Ephemeroptera) are not monophyletic based on 18S rDNA sequences: A Reply to Sun et al. (2006), Annals of the Entomological Society of America (2008)
 

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Does direct optimization produce more accurate alignments and topologies? POY vs. ClustalW+PAUP*, Systematic Biology (2007)

Direct optimization frameworks for simultaneously estimating alignments and phylogenies have recently been developed. One such...

 

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How should gaps be treated in parsimony? A comparison of approaches using simulation, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution (2007)

Simulation with indels was used to produce alignments where true site homologies in DNA sequences...

 

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Multiple sequence alignment accuracy and phylogenetic inference, Systematic Biology (2006)

Phylogenies are often thought to be more dependent upon the specifics of the sequence alignment...

 

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Phylogeny of Ephemeroptera (mayflies) based on molecular evidence, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution (2005)

This study represents the Wrst molecular phylogeny for the Order Ephemeroptera. The analyses included 31...

 

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Poor taxon sampling, poor character sampling, and non-repeatable analyses of a contrived dataset do not provide a more credible estimate of insect phylogeny: a reply to Kjer., Cladistics (2005)

The wealth of data available for phylogenetic analysis of the insect orders, from both morphological...

 

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The problem with the Paleoptera problem: sense and sensitivity, Cladistics (2003)

While the monophyly of winged insects (Pterygota) is well supported, phylogenetic relationships among the most...

 

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Taxonomy and biology of a new Oecophoridae (Lepidoptera) from central Chile, Revista Chilena de Historia Natural (2001)

The adult, larva, and pupa of Afdera jimenae Ogden & Parra sp. nov. are described...