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Forum – Circularity and Independence in Phylogenetic Tests of Ecological Hypotheses☆
Melissa Luckow,Anne Bruneau +1 more
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It is argued that adaptation or selection does not necessarily result in the non-independence of characters, and that characters for a cladistic analysis should be evaluated as homology statements rather than functional ones, and the practice of mapping characters onto a tree, rather than including them in the analysis, should be avoided.About:
This article is published in Cladistics.The article was published on 1997-03-01. It has received 61 citations till now.read more
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Ultrastructure of attachment specializations of hexapods (Arthropoda): evolutionary patterns inferred from a revised ordinal phylogeny
Rolf G. Beutel,Stanislav N. Gorb +1 more
TL;DR: The analysis demonstrates, that similar structures (arolium, euplantulae, hairy tarsomeres) have evolved independently in several lineages, and some of them support monophyletic groups (e.g. Embioptera + Dermaptera; Dictyoptera + Phasmatodea; Hymenoptera+ Mecopterida; Neuropterida + Strepsiptera + Coleoptera).
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Bayesian inference of character evolution.
TL;DR: Recently introduced Bayesian statistical methods enable the study of character evolution while simultaneously accounting for both phylogenetic and mapping uncertainty, adding much needed credibility to the reconstruction of evolutionary history.
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Convergent evolution and character correlation in burrowing reptiles: towards a resolution of squamate relationships
TL;DR: The affinities of three problematic groups of elongate, burrowing reptiles (ampshisbaenians, dibamids and snakes) are reassessed through a phylogenetic analysis of all the major groups of squamates, including the important fossil taxa Sineoamphisbaena, mosasauroids and Pachyrhachis; 230 phylogenetically informative osteological characters were evaluated in 22 taxa.
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Evolution of the gall wasp-host plant association.
TL;DR: These hypotheses were tested by mapping characters onto a recent estimate of higher cynipid relationships from a morphology‐based analysis of exemplar taxa, controlling for phylogenetic uncertainty using bootstrapping, and results contradict many of the current hypotheses.
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Phylogenetic relationships of functionally dioecious FICUS (Moraceae) based on ribosomal DNA sequences and morphology.
TL;DR: The associations of pollinating fig wasps were congruent with host fig phylogeny and further supported a revised classification of Ficus and suggested that functionally dioecious figs are not monophyletic and that monoecious subg.
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The comparative method in evolutionary biology
Paul H. Harvey,Mark Pagel +1 more
TL;DR: The comparative method for studying adaptation why worry about phylogeny?
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The Principles of Pollination Ecology
Knut Faegri,L. van der Pijl +1 more
TL;DR: The principles of pollination ecology are studied in the context of beekeeping and their role in the evolution of honey bees.
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A Concern for Evidence and a Phylogenetic Hypothesis of Relationships among Epicrates (Boidae, Serpentes)
TL;DR: High levels of character congruence were observed among 89 biochemical and morphological synapomorphies scored on 10 species of Epicrates, and the consensus cladogram was consistent with the phylogenetic interpretation attached to the resulting hypothesis, which is a consensus of two equally parsimonious cladograms.
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Statistics: The Exploration and Analysis of Data
Jay L. Devore,Roxy Peck +1 more
TL;DR: Tabukar and Pictorial Methods for describing data Numerical summary Measures Summarizing Bivariate data Probability Random Variables and discrete Probability Distribution Continuous Probability distribution Sampling Distributions Estimation using a single sample Inferences using two independent Samples Inferences with Paired Data Simple Linear Regression and Correlation Multiple Regression Analysis The Analysis of Categorical Data and Goodness-of-fit Methods Sampling Techniques as discussed by the authors.