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Colin Patterson

Researcher at British Museum

Publications -  64
Citations -  6562

Colin Patterson is an academic researcher from British Museum. The author has contributed to research in topics: Incertae sedis & Lungfish. The author has an hindex of 37, co-authored 63 publications receiving 6400 citations. Previous affiliations of Colin Patterson include Guy's Hospital.

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Homology in classical and molecular biology.

TL;DR: There are more kinds of homologous relation between molecular sequences than in morphology, and the terms paraxenology and plerology are proposed for two of these kinds--respectively, the consequence of multiple xenology and of gene conversion.
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Percomorph phylogeny: a survey of acanthomorphs and a new proposal

TL;DR: The interrelationships of acanthomorph fishes are reviewed and recommend extending the Percomorpha to include the Atherinomorpha (and other smegmamorphs), and argue that this larger group is monophyletic, although this survey does not cover Tetraodontiformes.