Integrative Biology 200
University of California, Berkeley


Recommended Readings



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History and Philosophy of Systematic Biology
The Hennig Principle
Homology
Characters and Character States
Character Coding
Molecular Data
Classification - Basic Principles
DNA Barcoding
Species Concepts
Phylogenetic Tree Reconstruction
Phenetics
Maximum Likelihood
Bayesian Methods
Phylogenetic Trees: Support and Tree Comparisons
Reticulation and Phylogeography
Morphometrics
Biogeography
Macroevolution
Comparative Methods
Conservation

* = required in 2011 course; other special recommendations starred for direct relevance to the course, basic to the field ("something everyone should have read"), etc.

 

History and Philosophy of Systematic Biology

Bock, W. J. (1973) Philosophical foundations of classical evolutionary classification Systematic Zoology 22: 375-392 Part of a general symposium on "Contemporary Systematic Philosophies," there are some other interesting papers here.

Brower, A. V. Z. (2000) Evolution Is Not a Necessary Assumption of Cladistics Cladistics 16: 143-154

Cleland, C. L. (2001) Historical science, experimental science, and the scientific method. Geology 29: 987-990

Dayrat, Benoit (2005) Ancestor-descendant relationships and the reconstruction of the Tree of Lif Paleobiology 31: 347-353

Donoghue, M.J. and J.W. Kadereit (1992) Walter Zimmermann and the growth of phylogenetic theory Systematic Biology 41: 74-84

Faith, D. P. and J. W. H. Trueman (2001) Towards an inclusive philosophy for phylogenetic inference Systematic Biology 50: 331-350

Gaffney, E. S. (1979) An introduction to the logic of phylogeny reconstruction, pp. 79-111 in Cracraft, J. and N. Eldredge (eds.) Phylogenetic Analysis and Paleontology Columbia University Press, New York.

Gilmour, J. S. L. (1940) Taxonomy and philosophy, pp. 461-474 in J. Huxley (ed.) The New Systematics Oxford

Hull, D. L. (1974) Philosophy of Biological Sciences. Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ.

Hull, D. L. (1978) A matter of individuality Phil. of Science 45: 335-360

Hull, D. L. (1978) The principles of biological classification: the use and abuse of philosophy

Hull, D. L. (1984) Cladistic theory: hypotheses that blur and grow, pp. 5-23 in T. Duncan and T. F. Stuessy (eds.) Cladistics: Perspectives on the Reconstruction of Evolutionary History Columbia University Press, New York

* Hull, D. L. (1988) Science as a process: an evolutionary account of the social and conceptual development of science University of Chicago Press. An already classic work on the recent, violent history of systematics; used as data for Hull's general theories about scientific change.

Hull, D. L. (1999) The use and abuse of Sir Karl Popper. Biology and Philosophy 14: 481-504

Kitts, D. B. (1977) Karl Popper, verifiability, and systematic zoology. Systematic Zoology 26: 185-194

Kluge, A. G. (1999) The Science of Phylogenetic Systematics: Explanation, Prediction and Test Cladistics 15: 429-436

Kluge, A. J. (2001) Philosophical conjectures and their refutation Systematic Biology 50: 322-330

Kuhn, T. S. (1970) The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, second edition. University of Chicago Press. A must-read for any scientist.

Mayr, E. (1982) The Growth of Biological Thought. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass.

Laudan, L. (1977) Progress and Its Problems. University of California Press, Berkley.

Losee, J. (1980) A Historical Introduction to the Philosophy of Science. Second edition. Oxford University Press. The best single-volume account of changes since Aristotle in how science proceeds -- strongly recommended.

McKelvey, B. (1982) Organizational Systematics, Univ. of California Press Berkeley

Mishler, B. D. (1989) Untitled review of Hull, D.L. (1988) Science as a process. Systematic Botany 14: 266-268

Mishler, Brent D. (2009). Three centuries of paradigm changes in biological classification: Is the end in sight? Taxon, 58(1), 61-67.

O'Hara, R. J. (1992) Telling the tree: Narrative representation and the study of evolutionary history Biology and Philosophy 7: 135-160

O'Keefe, F. R. and P. M. Sander (1999) Paleontological paradigms and inferences of phylogenetic pattern: a case study. Paleobiology 25: 518-533

de Queiroz, K (1987) Systematics and the Darwinian revolution. Philosophy of Science 55: 238-259

de Queiroz, K. and S. Poe (2001) Philosophy and phylogenetic inference: a comparison of likelihood and parsimony methods in the context of Karl Popper's writings on corroboration. Systematic Biology 50: 305-321

Sober, E. (1988) Reconstructing the past, Chapter 1. MIT Press.

** Sober, E. (2008). Evidence and Evolution: the logic behind the science, Cambridge University Press. Particularly good on philosophy of statistics (frequentism vs. likelihood vs. Bayesian approaches) and their relation to (1) inferring phylogenies and (2) inferring natural selection.

Stamos, D. N. (1996) Popper, falsifiability, and evolutionary biology. Biology and Philosophy 11: 161-191

Stevens, P. F. (1994) The development of biological systematics. Columbia University Press, New York.

Wiley, E. O. (1975) Karl R. Popper, systematics, and classification: a reply to Walter Bock and other evolutionary taxonomists. Systematic Zoology 24: 233-243

Wiley, E. O. (1981) Phylogenetics: The Theory and Practice of Phylogenetic Systematics.

Winsor, Mary Pickard (1995). "The english debate on taxonomy and phylogeny." History and Philosopy of the Life Sciences, 17(2), 227-252.

The Hennig Principle

Ax, P. (1987) The phylogenetic system. John Wiley, Chichester.

Dupuis, C. (1984) Willi Hennig? s impact on taxonomic thought. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 15: 1-24

* Farris J.S. (1983) The logical basis of phylogenetic analysis. pp. 7-36 In N Platnick and V Funk (eds.): Advances in Cladistics, Volume 2. NY:Columbia Univ. Press

Forey, P. L., C. J. Humphries, I. L. Kitching, R. W. Scotland, D. J. Siebert, and D. M. Williams. (1992) Cladistics. The Systematics Association Publication No.10, Oxford University Press, New York

Philippe Grandcolas, P., P. Deleporte, L. Desutter-Grandcolas, and C. Daugeron (2001) Phylogenetics and Ecology: As Many Characters as Possible Should Be Included in the Cladistic Analysis. Cladistics 17: 104-110

** Hennig, W. (1965) Phylogenetic systematics. Annual Review of Entomology 10: 97-116

Hennig, W. (1966) Phylogenetic systematics. University of Illinois Press, Urbana.

Kitching, I. J., P. L. Forey, C. J. Humpheries, and D. M. Williams. (1998) Cladistics: The Theory and Practice of Parsimony Analysis. Second Edition. The Systematics Association Publication No. 11 Oxford University Press, Oxford.

Kluge, A.G. (1994) Moving targets and shell games. Cladistics 10: 403-413

Kluge, A. G. (2001) Parsimony with and without Scientific Justification. Cladistics 17: 199-210

Lundberg, J. G. and L. A. McDade. (1990) Systematics. pp 65-108 in Methods for Fish Biology, American Fisheries Society.

Mishler, B. D. and E. De Luna. (1991) The use of ontogenetic data in phylogenetic analyses of mosses. Advances in Bryology 4: 121-167 Especially pages 129-143

**** Mishler, Brent D. (2005). The logic of the data matrix in phylogenetic analysis. In V.A. Albert (ed.), Parsimony, Phylogeny, and Genomics, Oxford University Press, 57-70. doi: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199297306.003.0004

Lindberg, D.R. (1992) Systematic Paleontology. Pp. 31-37 In: J. H. Lipps, ed. Fossil Prokaryotes and Protists, Blackwell Scientific Publications, Ltd., Oxford

Pol, D. and M. E. Siddall (2001) Biases in Maximum Likelihood and Parsimony: A Simulation Approach to a 10-Taxon Case. Cladistics 17: 266-281

de Queiroz, K. and J. Gauthier (1992) Phylogenetic taxonomy. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 23: 449-480

Wilkinson M. (1994) Three-taxon statements - when is a parsimony analysis is also a clique analysis. Cladistics 10: 221-223

Homology

Aboitiz, F. (1988) Homology, a comparative or a historical concept? Acta Biotheoretica 37: 27-29

Bang, R., R. DeSalle, and W. Wheeler. (2000) Transformationalism, taxism, and developmental biology in systematics. Systematic Biology 49: 19-28

Callazo, A. (2000) Developmental variation, homology, and the Pharngula stage. Systematic Biology 49: 3-18

Hall, B. K. (ed.). (1994) Homology: the hierarchical basis of comparative biology. Academic Press, San Diego. 483 pp.

Haszprunar, G. (1992) The types of homology and their significance for evolutionary biology and phylogenetics. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 5: 13-24

Lutzoni, L., P. Wagner, V. Reeb, and S. Zoller (2000) Integrating ambiguously aligned regions of DNA sequences without violating positional homology. Systematic Biology 49: 628-651

Patterson, C (1982) Morphological characters and homology. pp. 21-74 in Josey, K.A. and Friday, A.E. (eds.) Problems of Phylogenetic Reconstruction. Academic Press.

Patterson, C (1988) Homology in classical and molecular biology. Mol. Biol. Evolution 5: 603- 625

Roth, V.L. (1984) On homology Bioi. J. Linn. Soc. 22: 13-29

** Roth, V.L. (1988) The biological basis of homology. In Ontogeny and Systematics. Humpries, C.J. (ed.) Columbia University Press, NY.

Roth, V.L. (1991) Homology and hierarchies: Problems solved and unresolved. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 4: 167-194

Scotland, R. W. (2000) Taxic homology and three-taxon statement analysis. Systematic Biology 49: 480-500

Scotland, R. W. and M. A. Carine (2000) Classification or Phylogenetic Estimates? Cladistics 16: 411-419

Stevens, P.F. (1984) Homology and phylogeny: morphology and systematics. Systematic Botany 9: 395-409 Part of a symposium on homology in botany

Wagner, G. P. (1989) The biological homology concept. Ann. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 20: 51-69

Wray, G. A. and C. J. Lowe. (2000) Developmental regulatory genes and echinoderm evolution. Systematic Biology. 49: 28-51

Characters and states

Buschbeck, E. K. (2000) Neurobiological constraints and fly systematics: how different types of neural characters can contribute to a higher level dipteran phylogeny. Evolution 54: 888-898

Chappill, J. A. (1989) Quantitative characters in phylogenetic analysis. Cladistics 5: 217-234

Fink, William L. (1982). The Conceptual Relationship Between Ontogeny and Phylogeny. Paleobiology, 8(3), 254-264. (JSTOR)

Goldman, N. (1988) Methods of discrete coding of morphological characters for numerical analysis. Cladistics 4: 59-71

Hauser, D. L. and W. Presch. (1991) The effect of ordered characters on phylogenetic reconstruction. Cladistics 7: 243-265

Hibbett, D. S. and M. J. Donoghue (2001) Analysis of character correlations among wood decay mechanisms, mating systems, and substrate ranges in Homobasidiomycetes. Systematic Biology 51: 215-242

Jenner, R. A. (2001) Bilaterian phylogeny and uncritical recycling of morphological data sets. Systematic Biology 50: 730-742

Le Quesne, W. J. (1969) A method of selection of characters in numerical taxonomy. Systematic Zoology 18: 201-205

Lee, D.-C. and H. N. Bryant. (1999) A Reconsideration of the Coding of Inapplicable Characters: Assumptions and Problems. Cladistics 15: 373-378

Lipscomb, D. L. (1992) Parsimony, homology, and the analysis of multistate characters. Cladistics 8: 45-65

Mabee, P. M. (1989a) Assumptions underlying the ontogenetic use sequences for determining character state order. Trans. Amer. Fish. Soc. 118: 159-166

** Mishler, B. D. (2005) The logic of the data matrix in phylogenetic analysis. In V.A. Albert (ed.), Parsimony, Phylogeny, and Genomics, pp. 57-70. Oxford University Press.

** Mishler, B. D. and E. De Luna. (1991) The use of ontogenetic data in phylogenetic analyses of mosses. Advances in Bryology 4: 121-167

* Neff, N.A. (1986) A rational basis for a priori character weighting. Systematic Zoology 35: 102-109

Monteiro, L. R. (2000) Why morphometrics is special: the problem with using partial warps as characters for phylogenetic analysis. Systematic Biology 49: 796-800

O'Keffe, F. R. and P. J. Wagner. (2001) Inferring and testing hypotheses of cladistic character independence by using character compatibility. Systematic Biology 50: 657-675

Pimentel, R.A. and Riggins, R. (1987) The nature of cladistic data. Cladistics 3: 201-209

Pogue, M. G. and M. F. Mickevich. (1990) Character definitions and character state delineation: the b?te noire of phylogenetic inference. Cladistics 6: 319-361

Rae, T. C. (1998) The logical basis for the use of continuous characters in phylogenetic systematics.? Cladistics 14: 221-228

Schander, C. and P. Sundberg. (2001) Useful characters in gastropod phylogeny: soft information or hard facts? Systematic Biology 50: 136-141

Simmons, M. P. and H. Ochoterena. (2000) Gaps as characters in sequence-based phylogenetic analysis. Systematic Biology 49: 369-381

Simmons, M. P., H. Ochoterena, and T. G. Carr. (2001) Incorporation, relative homoplasy, and effect of gap characters in sequenced-based phylogenetic analysis. Systematic Biology 50: 454-461

Simmons, N. P. (2001) Misleading results from the use of ambiguity coding to score polymorphisms in higher-level taxa. Systematic Biology 50: 613-620

Slowinski, J. B. (1993) Unordered versus "ordered" characters. Systematic Biology 42: 155-165

Smith, E. N. and R. L. Gutberlet jr. (2001) Generalized frequency coding: a method of preparing polymorphic multistate characters for phylogenetic analysis. Systematic Biology 51: 156-169

* Stevens, P.F. (1991) Character states, morphological variation, and phylogenetic analysis: a review. Systematic Botany 16: 553-583

Strong, E. E. and D. Lipscomb. (1999) Character coding and inapplicable data. Cladistics 15: 363-371

Wagner, P. J. (2000) Exhaustion of morphologic character states among fossil taxa. Evolution 54: 365-386

Wagner, G. P. (ed.). (2001) The character concept in evolutionary biology. Academic Press, San Diego.

Wagner, P. J. (2000) Exhaustion of morphologic character states among fossil taxa. Evolution 54: 365-386

Wiens, J. J. (1995) Polymorphic characters in phylogenetic systematics. Systematic Biology 44: 482-500

Wiens, J. J. (2001) Character analysis in morphological phylogenetics: problems and solutions. Systematic Biology 50: 689-699

Wilkinson, M. (1992) Ordered versus unordered characters. Cladistics 8: 375-385

Character coding

* V.A. Albert, B.D. Mishler, and M.W. Chase (1992) Character-state weighting for restriction site data in phylogenetic reconstruction, with an example from chloroplast DNA. In P. Soltis, D. Soltis, and J. Doyle (eds.), Molecular Systematics of Plants, pp. 369-403. Chapman and Hall.

V.A. Albert and B.D. Mishler (1992) On the rationale and utility of weighting nucleotide sequence data. Cladistics 8: 73-83

** V.A. Albert, M.W. Chase, and B.D. Mishler (1993) Character-state weighting for cladistic analysis of protein-coding DNA sequences. Annals Missouri Botanical Garden 80: 752-766

Broughton, R. E., S. E. Stanley, and R. T. Durrett. (2000) Quantification of homoplasy for nucleotide transitions and transversions and a reexamination of assumptions in weighted phylogenetic analysis. Systematic Biology 49: 617-627

Carpenter J.M. (1994) Successive weighting, reliability and evidence. Cladistics 10: 215-220

Farris, J. S. (1969) A successive approximations approach to character weighting. Systematic Zoology 18: 374-385

Freudenstein, J. V., Pickett, K. M., Simmons, M. P. and Wenzel, J. W. (2003) From basepairs to birdsongs: Phylogenetic data in the age of genomics. Cladistics 19: 333-347

Goloboff, P. A. (1993) Estimating character weights during tree searches. Cladistics 9: 83-91

Taran Grant, Arnold G. Kluge (2004) Transformation Series as an Ideographic Character Concept. Cladistics 20: 23? 31

Kirchoff, B. K.; Richter, S. J.; Remington, D. L., et al. (2004) Complex data produce better characters. Systematic Biology 53: 1-17

Liebherr, J. K. and Zimmerman, E. C. (1998) Cladistic analysis, phylogeny and biogeography of the Hawaiian Platynin (Coleoptera: Carabidae). Systematic Entomology 23: 137-172

Maddison, W. P. (1993) Missing data versus missing characters in phylogenetic analysis. Systematic Biology 42: 576-581

Nixon K. C. and Davis J. I. (1991) Polymorphic taxa, missing values and cladistic analysis. Presented at: Annual meeting of the Botanical Society of America with the American Institute of Biological Sciences, San Antonio, Texas, USA, AUGUST 4-8. American Journal of Botany 78: 206

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Wheeler, Q.D. ( ) Character weighting and cladistic analysis. Systematic Zoology 35: 110-123

Whitehead D. R. and Ball G. E. (1975) Classification of the Middle American Genus (Cyrtolaus: Coleoptera: Carabidae pterostichini). Quaestiones Entomologicae 11: 591-619

Wilkinson, M. (1994) Weights and ranks in numerical phylogenetics. Cladistics 10: 321-329

Yeates, D. K. (1995) Groundplans and exemplars: Paths to the tree of life. Cladistics 11: 343-357

Molecular data

Albert, V. A. and B. D. Mishler. (1992) On the rationale and utility of weighting nucleotide sequence data. Cladistics 8: 73-83

Albert, V. A., B. D. Mishler and M. W. Chase. (1992) Character-state weighting for restriction site data in phylogenetic reconstruction, with an example from chloroplast DNA. Pages 369-403 in Molecular Systematics of Plants (Soltis, P. S., D. E. Soltis and J. J. Doyle, ed.). Chapman & Hall, New York.

Avise, J. C., J. Arnold, R. M. Ball, E. Bermingham, T. Lamb, J. E. Neigel, C. A. Reeb and N. C. Saunders. (1987) Intraspecific phylogeography: the mitochondrial DNA bridge between population genetics and systematics. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 18: 489-522

Avise, J. C. (1989) Gene trees and organismal histories: a phylogenetic approach to population biology. Evolution 43: 1192-1208

Baker, R. H., G. S. Wilkinson, R. DeSalle. (2001) Phylogenetic utility of different types of molecular data used to infer evolutionary relationships among stalk-eyed flies (Diopsidae). Systematic Biology 50: 87-105

Bledsoe, A. H. and R. J. Raikow. (1990) A quantitative assessment of congruence between molecular and nonmolecular estimates of phylogeny. J. Mol. Evolution 30: 247-259

Bremer, K. (1988) The limits of amino acid sequence data in angiosperm phylogenetic reconstruction. Evolution 42: 795-803

Broughton, R. E., S. E. Stanley, and R. T. Durrett. (2000) Quantification of homoplasy for nucleotide transitions and transversions and a reexamination of assumptions in weighted phylogenetic analyses. Systematic Biology 49: 617-627

Brower, Andrew V. Z., Schawaroch, Valerie (1996). "Three steps of homology assessment." Cladistics, 12(3), 265–272. doi: 10.1111/j.1096-0031.1996.tb00014.x

Bruns, T. D., T. J. White and J. W. Taylor. (1991) Fungal molecular systematics. Annu. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 22: 525-564

Collins, Timothy M.; Fedrigo, Olivier; Naylor, Gavin J. P. (2005) Choosing the best genes for the job: The case for stationary genes in genome-scale phylogenetics. Systematic Biology 54: 493-500

* Cracraft, J. (1987) DNA hybridization and avian phylogenetics. Evolutionary Biology 21: 47-96

Creer S, Malhotra A, Thorpe RS, et al. (2005) Targeting optimal introns for phylogenetic analyses in non-model taxa: experimental results in Asian pitvipers. Cladistics 21: 390-395

DeBry, R. W. (1999) Maximum likelihood analysis of gene-based and structure-based process partitions, using mammalian mitochondrial genomes. Systematic Biology 48: 286-299

DeSalle, R. and D. A. Grimaldi. (1991) Morphological and molecular systematics of the Drosophilidae. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 22: 447-475

** Donoghue, M. J. and M. J. Sanderson. (1992) The suitability of molecular and morphological evidence in reconstructing plant phylogeny. Pages 340-368 in Molecular Systematics of Plants (Soltis, P. S., D. E. Soltis and J. J. Doyle, ed.). Chapman & Hall, New York.

Doyle, J. J. (1992) Gene trees and species trees: molecular systematics as one-character taxonomy. Systematic Botany 17: 144-163

Fleissner, Roland; Metzler, Dirk; Von Haeseler, Arndt. (2005) Simultaneous statistical multiple alignment and phylogeny reconstruction. Systematic Biology 54: 548-561

Giribet G. (2005) Generating implied alignments under direct optimization using POY . Cladistics 21: 396-402

Givnish, T. J. and K. J. Sytsma (1997). Homoplasy in molecular vs. morphological data: the likelihood of correct phylogenetic inference. Molecular (1997) Evolution and Adaptive Radiation. (T. J. Givnish and K. J. Sytsma, eds). Cambridge, Cambridge University Press: 55-101

Hillis, D. M. (1987) Molecular versus morphological approaches to systematics. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 18: 23-42

Hillis, D. M., J. J. Bull, M. E. White, M. R. Badgett and I. J. Molineux. (1992) Experimental phylogenetics: generation of a known phylogeny. Science 255: 589-592

Hillis, D.M. (1995) Approaches for assessing phylogenetic accuracy. Systematic Biology 44: 39523

Hillis, D. M., C. Moritz and B. K. Mable (eds.). (1996) Molecular Systematics, second edition. Sinauer, Sunderland, MA. 655 pp.

Hillis, D. M. and J. J. Wiens. (2000) Molecules versus morphology in systematics: conflicts, artifacts, and misconceptions. pp. 1-19 in J. J. Wiens (ed.), Phylogenetic Analysis of Morphological Data. Washington DC, Smithsonian Institution Press.

Huelsenbeck, J. P. and R. Nielsen. (1999) Effect of non-independent substitution on phylogenetic accuracy. Systematic Biology 49: 317-328

Laamanen TR, Meier R, Miller MA, et al. (2005) Phylogenetic analysis of Themira (SepsidaeDiptera): sensitivity analysis, alignment, and indel treatment in a multigene study. Cladistics 21: 258-271

Lutzoni, F., P. Wagner, V. Reeb and S. Zoller. (2000) Integrating ambiguously aligned regions of DNA sequences in phylogenetic analyses without violating positional homology. Systematic Biology 49: 628-651

Macey, J. R., J. A. Schulte II, and A. Larson. (2000) Evolution and phylogenetic information content of mitochondrial genomic structural features illustrated with acrodont lizards. Systematic Biology 49: 257-277

Mindell, D. P. and R. L. Honeycutt. (1990) Ribosomal RNA in vertebrates: evolution and phylogenetic applications. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 21: 541-566

** Mishler, B. D. (1994) The cladistic analysis of molecular and morphological data. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 94: 143-156

Mishler, B. D., K. Bremer, C. J. Humphries and S. P. Churchill. (1988) The use of nucleic acid sequence data in phylogenetic reconstruction. Taxon 37: 391-395

Morrison, David A. (2009). Why Would Phylogeneticists Ignore Computerized Sequence Alignment?, Systematic Biology, 58(1), 150-158. doi: 10.1093/sysbio/syp009

* Miyamoto, M. M. and J. Cracraft (eds.). (1991) Phylogenetic analysis of DNA sequences. Oxford University Press, New York. 358 pp.

Nei, M. and F. Tajima. (1987) Problems arising in phylogenetic inference from restriction-site data. Mol. Biol. Evolution 4: 320-323

Palmer, J. D., R. K. Jansen, H. J. Michaels, M. W. Chase and J. R. Manhart. (1988) Chloroplast DNA variation and plant phylogeny. Ann. Mo. Bot. Gard. 75: 1180-1206

Palmer, J. D. and L. A. Herbon. (1988) Plant mitochondrial DNA evolves rapidly in structure, but slowly in sequence. J. Mol. Evolution 28: 87-97

Patterson, C. (ed.). (1987) Molecules and Morphology in Evolution: Conflict or Compromise. Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge.

Patterson, C., D. M. Williams and C. J. Humphries. (1993) Congruence between molecular and morphological phylogenies. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 24: 153-188

Penny, D., M. Hasegawa, P. J. Waddell, and M. D. Hendy. (1999) Mammalian evolution: timing and implications from using the LogDeterminant transform for proteins of differing amino acid composition. Systematic Biology 48: 76-93

Phillips, Aloysius; Janies, Daniel; Wheeler, Ward (2000). "Multiple Sequence Alignment in Phylogenetic Analysis." Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 16(3), 317-330. doi: 10.1006/mpev.2000.0785

Pisani, Davide. (2004) Identifying and removing fast-evolving sites using compatibility analysis: An example from the arthropoda. Systematic Biology 53: 978-989

Posada, D. and K. A. Crandall. (2001) Selecting the best fit model of nucleotide substitution. Systematic Biology 50: 580-601

Saitou, N. and M. Nei. (1987) The neighbor-joining method: a new method for reconstructing phylogenetic trees. Mol. Biol. Evolution 4: 406-425

Sanderson, M. J. and M. J. Donoghue. (1989) Patterns of variation in levels of homoplasy. Evolution 43: 1781-1795

Sarich, V. M., C. W. Schmid and J. Marks. (1989) DNA hybridization as a guide to phylogenies: a critical analysis. Cladistics 5: 11749

Sennblad, B. and B. Bremer. (2000) Is there justification for differential a priori weighting in coding sequences? A case study from rbcL abd Apocynaceae s.l. Systematic Biology 49: 101-113

* Sibley, C. G. and J. E. Ahlquist. (1986) Reconstructing bird phylogeny by comparing DNAs. Sci. Am. 254: 82-92

Simmons, M. P. (2000) A Fundamental Problem with Amino-Acid-Sequence Characters for Phylogenetic Analyses. Cladistics 16: 274-282

Simmons, M. P. and H. Ochoterena. (2000) Gaps as characters in sequence-based phylogenetic analyses. Systematic Biology 49: 369-381

Simmons, M. P., H. Ochoterena, and T. G. Carr. (2001) Incorporation, relative homoplasy, and effect of gap characters in sequence-based phylogenetic analyses. Systematic Biology 50: 454-462

Slowinski, J. B. and B. S. Arbogast. (1999) Is the rate of molecular evolution inversely related to body size? Systematic Biology 48: 396-399

Smith, A. B. (1989) RNA sequence data in phylogenetic reconstruction: testing the limits of its resolution.

Smith, R. L. and K. J. Sytsma. (1990) Evolution of Populus nigra (sect. Aigeiros): introgressive hybridization and the chloroplast contribution of Populus alba (sect. Populus ). Am. J. Bot. 77 1176-1187

Springer, M. S., H. M. Amrine, A. Burk, and M. J. Stanhope. (1999) Additional support for Afrotheria and Paenungulata, the performance of mitochondrial versus nuclear genes, and the impact of data partitions with heterogeneous base composition. Systematic Biology 48: 65-75

Steel, M., D. Huson, and P. J. Lockhart. (2000) Invariable sites models and their use in phylogeny reconstruction. Systematic Biology 49: 225-232

Sytsma, K. J., J. F. Smith and L. D. Gottlieb. (1990) Phylogenetics in Clarkia (Onagraceae): restriction site mapping of chloroplast DNA. Systematic Botany 15: 280-295

Sytsma, K. J. (1990) DNA and morphology: inference of plant phylogeny. Trends Ecol. Evolution 5: 104-110

Terry MD, Whiting MF. (2005) Comparison of two alignment techniques within a single complex data set: POY versus Clustal. Cladistics 21: 272-281

Van Dijk, M. A. M., E. Paradis, F. Catzeflis, and W. W. De Jong. (1999) The virtues of gaps: Xenarthran (edentate) monophyly supported by a unique deletion in aA-Crystallin. Systematic Biology 48: 94-106

Waddell, P. J., Y. Cao, J. Hauf, M. Hasegawa. (1999) Using novel phylogenetic methods to evaluate mammalian mtDNA, including amino acid-invariant sites-LogDet plus site stripping, to detect internal conflicts in the data, with special reference to the positions of hedgehog, armadillo, and elephant. Systematic Biology 48: 31-53

Wheeler, W. C. (1995) Sequence alginment, parameter sensistivity and the phylogenetic analysis of molecular data. Systematic Biology 44: 321-331

Wheeler, W. C. (2001) Homology and the Optimization of DNA Sequence Data. Cladistics 17: S3-S11

Wilgenbusch, J. and de Queiroz, K. (2000) Phylogenetic relationships among the phyrnosomatid sand lizards inferred from mitochondrial DNA sequences generated by heterogeneous evolutionary processes. Systematic Biology 49: 592-612

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Yang, Z. (1996) Among-site rate variation and its impact on phylogenetic analyses. Trends Ecol. Evolution 11: 367-372

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Classification - Basic Principles

Avise, J.C. and G.C. Johns. (1999) Proposal for a standardized temporal scheme of biological classification for extant species. PNAS 96: 7358-7363

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** de Queiroz, K. (1988) Systematics and the Darwinian revolution. Phil. Sci. 55: 238-259

Farris, J. S. (1974) Formal definitions of paraphyly and polyphyly. Systematic Zoology 23: 548-554

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Nelson, G. (1973) Classification as an expression of phylogenetic relationships. Systematic Zoology 22: 344-359

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Species Concepts

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Donoghue, M. J. (1985) A critique of the biological species concept and recommendations for a phylogenetic alternative. Bryologist 88: 172-181

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Mayr, E. 1982. The Growth of Biological Thought. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass. Especially Chapter 6, on "Microtaxonomy, the science of species"

Mayr, E. 1984. Species concepts and their application. (reprinted) Pages 531-540 in Conceptual Issues in Evolutionary Biology (Sober, E., ed.). MIT press, Cambridge, Mass.

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Miller, W. 2001. The structure of species, the outcomes of speciation and the ‘species problem’: ideas for paleobiology. Palaegeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 176: 1-10.

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Mishler, B. D. 1985. The morphological, developmental, and phylogenetic basis of species concepts in bryophytes. Bryol. 88:207-214.

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Mishler, B. D. and A. F. Budd. 1990. Species and evolution in clonal organisms -- introduction. Syst. Bot. 15:79-85.

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Paterson, H. E. H. 1985. The recognition concept of species. Pp. 21-29 in Species and speciation , ed. E. S. Vrba. Pretoria: Transvaal Museum.

Ridley, M. 1989. The cladistic solution to the species problem. Biol. Phil. 4:1-16.

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Rosen, D. E. 1979. Fishes from the upland and intermontane basins of Guatemala: revisionary studies and comparative geography. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 162:267-376.Simpson, G. G. 1961. Principles of animal taxonomy. New York: Columbia Univ. Press.

Schander, C. and M. Thollesson. 1995. Phylogenetic taxonomy - some comments. Zoologica Scripta 24(3):263-268.

Sokal, R. R. and T. J. Crovello. 1984. The biological species concept: a critical evaluation. (reprinted) Pages 541-566 in Conceptual Issues in Evolutionary Biology (Sober, E., ed.). MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass.

Templeton, A.R. 1989. The meaning of species and speciation: a genetic perspective. Pp. 3-27 in Speciation and its consequences, ed. D. Otte and J. A. Endler. Sunderland, Mass.: Sinauer Associates.

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Wheeler, Q. D. and Meier, R. 2000. Species Concepts and Phylogenetic Theory. Columbia Unviersity Press, New York.

Wiens, J. J. and T. A. Penkrot. 2002. Delimiting species using DNA and morphological variation and discordant species limits in spiny lizards (Sceloporus). Systematic Biology 51: 69-91.

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DNA Barcodes

Hebert, Paul D. N.; Gregory, T. Ryan. The promise of DNA barcoding for taxonomy. Systematic Biology 54 (5) 2005

Wheeler QD. Losing the plot: DNA "barcodes" and taxonomy. Cladistics 21 (4): 405-407 2005

Will, Kipling W.; Mishler, Brent D.; Wheeler, Quentin D.. The perils of DNA barcoding and the need for integrative taxonomy. Systematic Biology 54 (5) OCT 2005

Phylogenetic Tree Reconstruction

Albert VA, Chase MW, and Mishler BD (1993) Character-state weighting for cladistic analysis of protein-coding DNA sequences. Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 80: 752-766

Albert VA, and Mishler BD (1992) On the rationale and utility of weighting nucleotide sequence data. Cladistics 8: 73-83

Albert VA, Mishler BD, and Chase MW (1992) Character-state weighting for restriction site data in phylogenetic reconstruction, with an example from chloroplast DNA. pp. 369-403 in PS Soltis, DE Soltis and JJ Doyle (eds.): Molecular Systematics of Plants. New York:Chapman & Hall

Anderson, J. S. (2001) The phylogenetic trunk: maximal inclusion of missing data in an analysis of the Lepospondyli (Vertebrata, Tetrapoda). Systematic Biology 50: 170-193

Bininda-Emonds, O. R. P., M. J. Sanderson. (2001) Assessment of the accuracy of matrix representation with parsimony analysis supertree construction. Systematic Biology 50: 565-579

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Bremer, B., R. K. Jansen, B. Oxelman, M. Backlund, H. Lantz, and K.-J. Kim. (1999) More characters or more taxa for a robust phylogeny ? case study from the coffee family (Rubiaceae). Systematic Biology 48: 413-435

Brochu, C. A. (1999) Taxon sampling and reverse successive weighting. Systematic Biology 48: 808-814

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Clyde, W. C. and D. C. Fisher. (1997) Comparing the fit of stratigraphic and morphologic data in phylogenetic analysis. Paleobiology 23: 1-19

Constantinescu, M. and D. Sankoff. (1986) Tree enumeration modulo a consensus. Journal of Classification 3: 349-356

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Farris, J. S. (1969) A successive approximations approach to character weighting. Systematic Zoology 18: 374-385

Farris, J. S. (1970) Methods for computing Wagner trees. Systematic Zoology 19: 83-92

Farris, J. S. (1972) Estimating phylogenetic trees from distance matrices. American Naturalist 106: 645-668

Farris, J. S. (1977) Phylogenetic analysis under Dollo's Law. Systematic Zoology 26: 77-88

Farris J. S. (1981) Distance data in phylogenetic analysis. pp. 3-23 in VA Funk and DR Brooks (eds.): Advances in Cladistics: Proceedings of the First Meeting of the Willi Hennig Society. Bronx, New York:New York Botanical Garden

Farris, J. S. (1982) Outgroups and parsimony. Systematic Zoology 31: 328-334

Farris J. S. (1983) The logical basis of phylogenetic analysis. pp. 7-36 in N Platnick and V Funk (eds.): Advances in Cladistics, Volume 2 NY:Columbia Univ. Press.

Farris, J. S. (1988) Hennig86, version 15 Distributed by the author, Port Jefferson Station, NY.

Felsenstein, J. (1978) The number of evolutionary trees. Systematic Zoology 27: 27-33

Felsenstein, J. (1978) Cases in which parsimony and compatibility will be positively misleading. Systematic Zoology 27: 401-410

Felsenstein, J. (1984) The statistical approach to inferring phylogeny and what it tells us about parsimony and compatibility. Pages 169-191 in T. Duncan and T. F. Stuessy (ed.), Cladistics: Perspectives on the Reconstruction of Evolutionary History (Columbia University Press:

Fisher, D. C. (1991) Phylogenetic analysis and its application in evolutionary paleobiology. pp 103-121 in Analytical Paleobiology.

Fisher, D. C. (1992) Stratigraphic Parsimony. Pages 124-129 in MacClade: Analysis of Phylogeny and Character Evolution, Version 3 (W. P. Maddison and D. R. Maddison, eds.). Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, MA.

Fisher, D. C. (1994) Stratocladistics: morphological and temporal patterns and their relation to phylogenetic process. Pages 133-171 in Interpreting the Hierarchy of Nature ? from systematic patterns to evolutionary theories (L. Grande and O. Rieppel, eds.). Academic Press, S

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Hendy, M. D., M. A. Steel, D. Penny, and I. M. Henderson. (1988) Families of trees and consensus. Pages 355-362 in H. H. Bock (ed.), Classification and Related Methods of Data Analysis (Elsevier: Amsterdam).

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Hillis, D. M. (1987) Molecular versus morphological approaches to systematics. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 18: 23-42

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Maddison, D. R. (1991) The discovery and importance of multiple islands of most-parsimonious trees Systematic Zoology 40: 315-328

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Prendini, L. (2001) Species or supraspecific taxa as terminals in cladistic analysis? Groundplans versus exemplars revisited. Systematic Biology 50: 290-300

Quicke, D. L. J., J. Taylor, and A. Purvis. (2001) Changing the landscape: a new strategy for estimating large phylogenies. Systematic Biology 50: 60-66

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Sankoff, D.D. and R. J. Cedergren. (1983) Simultaneous comparison of three or more sequences related by a tree. Pages 253-263 in D. Sankoff and J. B. Kruskal (ed.), Time Warps, String Edits, and Macromolecules: the Theory and Practice of Sequence Comparison (Addison-Wesley: Reading, Mass.).

Sankoff, D.D. and P. Rousseau. (1975) Locating the vertices of a Steiner tree in an arbitrary metric space. Mathematical Programming 9: 240-246

Simmons, N. B. (2001) Misleading results from the use of ambiguity coding to score polymorphisms in higher-level taxa. Systematic Biology 50: 613-620

Smith, E. N., and R. L. Gutberlet Jr. (2001) Generalized frequency coding: a method of preparing polymorphic multistate characters for phylogenetic analysis. Systematic Biology 50: 156-169

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Sober, Elliott. (2004) The contest between parsimony and likelihood. Systematic Biology 53: 644-653

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Swofford, D. L. and W. P. Maddison. (1987) Reconstructing ancestral character states under Wagner parsimony. Mathematical Biosciences 87: 199-229

Swofford DL, and Olsen GJ (1990) Phylogeny reconstruction. pp. 411-501 in DM Hillis and C Moritz (eds.): Molecular Systematics (First Edition). Sunderland, MA:Sinauer Associates.

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Templeton, A. R. (1983a) Convergent evolution and non-parametric inferences from restriction fragment and DNA sequence data. pp 151-179 in B. Weir (ed.), Statistical Analysis of DNA Sequence Data (Marcel Dekker: New York).

Templeton, A. R. (1983b) Phylogenetic inference from restriction endonuclease cleavage site maps with particular reference to the evolution of humans and apes. Evolution 37: 221-244

WAGNER, P. J. (1995) Stratigraphic tests of cladistic hypotheses. Paleobiology 21: 153-178

WAGNER, P. J. (1997) Patterns of morphologic diversification among the rostroconchia. Paleobiology 23: 115-150

Wiley, E. O. (1981) Phylogenetics. The Theory and Practice of Phylogenetic Systematics. (Wiley and Sons: New York).

Wheeler W.C. and Nixon K. (1994) A novel method for economical, diagnosis of cladograms Sankoff optimization. Cladistics 10: 207-213

Wiley, E. O., D. Siegel-Causey, D. R. Brooks, and V. A. Funk. (1991) The Complete Cladist. A Primer of Phylogenetic Procedures. (University of Kansas Museum of Natural History Special Publ. No. 19, Lawrence, Kansas).

Phenetics

Barbujani, G., Oden, N.L., & Sokal, R.R. (1989) Detecting regions of abrupt change in maps of biological variables. Systematic Zoology 38: 37 6-389

Barrett S.J. & Sneath, P.H.A. (1994) A numerical phenotypic taxonomic study of the genus Neisseria. Microbiology 140: 2867-2891

Blackwelder, R.E. (1967) A critique of numerical taxonomy. Systematic Zoology 16: 64-72

* Colless, D.H. (1967) An examination of concepts in phenetic taxonomy. Systematic Zoology 16: 6-27

** Farris, J.S. (1967) The meaning of relationship and taxonomic procedure. Systematic Zoology 16: 44-51

Felsenstein, J. (2001) The troubled growth of statistical phylogenetics. Systematic Biology 50: 465-467

Huson, Daniel H.; Steel, Mike. (2004) Distances that perfectly mislead. Systematic Biology 53: 327-332

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* Kim, J., Rohlf, F.J. & Sokal, R.R. (1993) The accuracy of phylogenetic estimation using the neighbor-joining method. Evolution 47: 471-486

Mayr, E. (1965) Numerical phenetics and taxonomic theory. 73-97 14: 73-97

Moss, W. (1968) Experiments with various techniques of numerical taxonomy. Systematic Zoology 17: 31-47

Nelson, A.D. and W.J. Elisens. (1999) Polyploid evolution and biogeography in Chelone (Scrophulariaceae): Morphological and isozyme evidence. American Journal of Botany 86: 1487-1501

Rasnitsyn, A.P. (1996) Conceptual issues in phylogeny, taxonomy, and nomenclature. CONTRIB ZOOL 66: 3-41

Rohlf, F.J., Chang, W.S., Sokal, R.R. & Kim, J.Y. (1990) Accuracy of estimated phylogenies effects of tree topology and evolutionary model. Evolution 44: 1671-1684

Sneath, P. H. A. (1967) Some statistical problems in numerical taxonomy. Statistician 17: 1-12

Sneath, P. H. A. (1969) Recent trends in numerical taxonomy. Taxon 18: 14-20

* Sneath, P. H. A. (1971) Numerical taxonomy: criticisms and critiques. Biol. J. Linn. Soc. 3: 147-157

Sneath, P. H. A. (1961) Recent developments in theoretical and quantitative taxonomy. Systematic Zoology 10: 118-139

Sneath, P.H.A. (1989) Analysis and interpretation of sequence data for bacterial systematics: The view of a numerical taxonomist. Systematic and Applied Microbiology 12: 15-31

Sneath, P. H. A., and R. R. Sokal (1962) Numerical taxonomy. Nature 193: 855-860

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Sokal, R. R. (1965) Statistical methods in systematics. Biol. Rev. 40: 337-391

Sokal, R. R. (1966) Numerical taxonomy. Sci. Amer. 215: 106 116

Sokal, R. R. (1969) Animal taxonomy: theory and practice. Quart. Rev. Biol. 44: 209-211

Sokal, R. R., J. H. Camin, F. J. Rohlf, and P. H A. Sneath (1965) Numerical taxonomy: some points of view. Systematic Zoology 14: 237-243

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Maximum Likelihood

Bergsten J. (2005) A review of long-branch attraction. Cladistics 21: 163-193

Buckley, T. R., C. Simon, and G. K. Chambers. (2001) Exploring among0site variation models in a maximum likelihood framework using empirical data: effects of model assumptions on estimates of topology, branch lengths, and bootstrap support. Systematic Biology 50: 67-86

Brinkmann, Henner; Van der Giezen, Mark; Zhou, Yan, et al. (2005) An empirical assessment of long-branch attraction artefacts in deep eukaryotic phylogenomics. Systematic Biology 54:

Caterinno, M. S., R. D. Reed, M. M. Kuo, and F. A. H. Sperling. (2001) A partitioned likelihood analysis of swallowtail butterfly phylogeny (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae). Systematic Biology 50: 106-127

DeBry, R. W. and N. A. Slade. (1985) Cladistic analysis of restriction endonuclease cleavage maps within a maximum-likelihood framework. Systematic Zoology 34: 21-34

deQueiroz, K. and S. Poe. (2001) Philosophy and phylogenetic inference: a comparison of likelihood and parsimony methods in the context of Karl Popper? s writings on corroboration. Systematic Biology 50: 305-321

Huelsenbeck, J. P. and B. Rannala. (1997) Maximum likelihood estimation of hpylogeny using stratigraphic data. Paleobiology 23: 174-180

Huelsenbeck, J. P. and B. Rannala. (2000) Using stratigraphic information in phylogenetics. pp. 165-191 in J. J. Wiens (ed.), Phylogenetic Analysis of Morphological Data. Washington DC, Smithsonian Institution Press.

Faith, D. P. and W. H. Trueman. (2001) Towards an inclusive phylogeny for phylgenetic inference. Systematic Biology 50: 331-350

Farris, J. S. (2000) Corroboration versus "Strongest Evidence. Cladistics 16: 385-393

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Haber, Matthew H. (2005) On probability and systematics: Possibility, probability, and phylogenetic inference. Systematic Biology 54: 831-841

Kluge, A. G. (2001) Philosophical conjectures and their refutation. Systematic Biology 50: 322-331

Lewis, P. O. (2001) A likelihood approach to estimating phylogeny from discrete morphological character data. Systematic Biology 50: 913-925

Mooers, A. O. and D. Schluter. (1990) Reconstructin ancestor states with maximum likelihood: support for one- and two-rate models. Systematic Biology 48: 612-622

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Macroevolution

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Comparative Methods

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Conservation

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