▪ Abstract Insect molecular systematics has undergone remarkable recent growth. Advances
in methods of data generation and analysis have led to the accumulation of large amounts of …

Because of the correlation expected between the phylogenetic relatedness of two taxa and
their net ecological similarity, a measure of the overall phylogenetic relatedness of a …

Background Analyses of biomolecules for biodiversity, phylogeny or structure/function
studies often use graphical tree representations. Many powerful tree editors are now …

Motivation: Previous studies have shown that accounting for site-specific amino acid
replacement patterns using mixtures of stationary probability profiles offers a promising …

Evolutionary biologists tend to tread cautiously when considering how behavioral data might
be incorporated into phylogenetic analyses, largely because of the preconception that …

Missing data are a widely recognized nuisance factor in phylogenetic analyses, and the fear
of missing data may deter systematists from including characters that are highly incomplete …

Phylogenetic relationships within the genus Cladonia, including Cladina (Cladoniaceae,
Lecanoromycetes), were reconstructed based upon simultaneous analyses of DNA …

The Pantropical spider clade Nephilidae is famous for its extreme sexual size dimorphism,
for constructing the largest orb‐webs known, and for unusual sexual behaviors, which …

In this history of numerical taxonomy since the publication in 1963 of Sokal and Sneath's
Principles of Numerical Taxonomy, I include reminiscences of the reactions of biologists in …

Phylogeography is concerned with the observation, description and analysis of the spatial
distribution of genotypes and the inference of historical scenarios. In the past, the discipline …