DNA data has been widely used in animal phylogenetic studies over the past 15 years. Here
we review how these studies have used advances in knowledge of molecular evolutionary …

▪ Abstract Islands have traditionally been considered to be any relatively small body of land
completely surrounded by water. However, their primary biological characteristic, an …

An approximately unbiased (AU) test that uses a newly devised multiscale bootstrap
technique was developed for general hypothesis testing of regions in an attempt to reduce …

CONSEL is a program to assess the confidence of the tree selection by giving the p-values
for the trees. The main thrust of the program is to calculate the p-value of the Approximately …

The global spread of dengue virus (DENV) infections has increased viral genetic diversity,
some of which appears associated with greater epidemic potential. The mechanisms …

Squamate reptiles (snakes, lizards, and amphisbaenians) serve as model systems for
evolutionary studies of a variety of morphological and behavioral traits, and phylogeny is …

Bamboos are large perennial grasses of temperate and tropical forests worldwide. Two
general growth forms exist: the economically and ecologically important woody bamboos …

New Zealand has long been a conundrum to biogeographers, possessing as it does
geophysical and biotic features characteristic of both an island and a continent. This schism …

One of the longstanding questions in phylogenetic systematics is how to address
incongruence among phylogenies obtained from multiple markers and how to determine the …

Sequence comparisons and a revised classification of the Euglenophyceae were based on
92 new SSU rDNA sequences obtained from strains of Euglena, Astasia, Phacus …