Basal and Transitional Taxon Shortly before I left for China I received an alert on an interesting paper: Bronzati M, 2017. Should the...
Showing posts with label phylogenetic systematics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label phylogenetic systematics. Show all posts
Thursday, 3 August 2017
Friday, 28 April 2017
Orchid Taxonomy Edition Arguments For Paraphyletic Taxa One of the recurrent topics of this blog is the controversy around the acceptance...
Sunday, 23 April 2017
Unexpected Dangers Caused By The Re-rooting Phylogenies Two or Three Days ago a colleague circulated the following recently published pap...
Wednesday, 11 January 2017
Ferns and Lycophytes New Phylogenetic Classification A couple days ago ferns and lycophytes New Phylogenetic Classification was published...
Saturday, 10 December 2016
CladisticsTextbook, part 2, Coming Back to the Book Page 118: The study of phylogeny is an historical science, concerned with the discover...
Tuesday, 29 November 2016
Cladistics Second Edition - The Theory and Practice of Parsimony Analysis In my office I have two 'proper' phylogenetics textbooks,...
Friday, 4 November 2016
Molecular Phylogenetics CBA Seminar Today I went to a Centre of Biodiversity Analysis seminar over at the Australian National University:...
Sunday, 21 August 2016
Monophyletic Species Again Recently I received a publication alert for Ja soon to be published manuscript. It gave me reason once more to...
Thursday, 11 August 2016
Uses of phylogenetic Relationships Inspired by a conversation today, I am wondering: What are the uses of phylogenies? I mean, as a phylo...
Friday, 17 June 2016
Jacobaea vulgaris (Asteraceae), also known as Senecio jacobaea , Germany, 2005. This species is a widely introduced weed, and among the pl...
Thursday, 21 April 2016
Time for a little rant. Two days ago I tried to identify an Australian native Asteraceae. I already knew that it had to belong to one of two...
Friday, 1 April 2016
Some time ago a colleague commented on this blog that "Bayesian (MrBayes/Beast) analyses have become almost stand-alone standard"....
Friday, 25 March 2016
Strangely, editors of systematics journals do not appear to tire of opinion pieces rehashing the discussion about paraphyletic taxa that had...
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