Reliable phylogenetic resolution of morphological data can be better than that of molecular data

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TAXONVolume 52, Issue 1 p. 109-112 Points of ViewsFree Access Reliable phylogenetic resolution of morphological data can be better than that of molecular data Richard H. Zander, Richard H. Zander [email protected] Missouri Botanical Garden, P.O. Box 299, 63166 St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.A.Search for more papers by this author Richard H. Zander, Richard H. Zander [email protected] Missouri Botanical Garden, P.O. Box 299, 63166 St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.A.Search for more papers by this author First published: 01 February 2003 https://doi.org/10.2307/3647308Citations: 6AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Literature Cited Avise, J. C. 1994. Molecular Markers, Natural History and Evolution. Chapman and Hall, New York. Donoghue, M. J. 1990. Why parsimony? Evolution 44: 1121– 1123. Doyle, J. J. 1992. Gene trees and species trees: molecular sys-tematics as one-character taxonomy. Syst. Bot. 17: 144– 163. Games, P. A. & Klare, G. R. 1967. Elementary Statistics:Data Analysis for the Behavioral Sciences. McGraw-Hill, New York. Hudson, R. R. 1992. Gene trees, species trees and the segregation of ancestral alleles. Genetica 131: 509– 512. Huelsenbeck, J. P. & Hillis, D. M. 1996. Parametric bootstrapping in molecular phylogenetics: applications and performance. Pp. 19—15 in: J. D. Ferraris & S. R. Palumbi (eds.), Molecular Zoology: Advances, Strategies, and Protocols. Wiley-Liss, New York. Kendall, M., Ord, J. K., Stuart, A. & O’Hagan, A. 1987. Kendall’s Advanced Theory of Statistics. Edward Arnold, London. Lowry, R. 2002. VassarStats: Web Site for Statistical Computation. Department of Psychology, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York. 7 March, 2002. http://faculty.vassar.edu/~lowry/VassarStats.html Lyons-Weiler, J. & Milinkovitch, MC. 1997. A phylogenetic approach to the problem of differential lineage sorting. Mol. Biol. Evol. 14: 968– 975. Maddison, W. P. 1996. Molecular approaches and the growth of phylogenetic theory. Pp. 47– 63 in: J. D Ferraris & S. R. Palumbi (eds.), Molecular Zoology: Advances, Strategies, and Protocols. Wiley-Liss: New York. Mickevich, M. F. 1982. Transformation series analysis. Syst. Zool. 31: 461– 478. Moore, W. S. 1995. Inferring phylogenies from mtDNA variation: mitochondrial-gene trees versus nuclear-gene trees. Evolution 49: 718– 726. Philippe, H., Lecointre, G., Hoc Lanh Vân Lê & Le Guyader, H. 1996. A critical study of homoplasy in molecular data with the use of a morphologically based cladogram, and its consequences for character weighting. Mol. Biol. Evol. 13: 1174– 1186. Seberg, O, Petersen, G. & Baden, C. 1997. Taxonomic incongruence—a case in point from plants. Cladistics 13: 180. Sites, J. W., Davis, Jr., S. K, Guerra, T., Iverson, J. B. & Snell, H. L. 1996. Character congruence and phylogenetic signal in molecular and morphological data sets: a case study in the living iguanas (Squamata, Iguanidae). Mol. Biol. Evol. 13: 1087– 1105. Swofford, D. L. 1998. PAUP*. Phylogenetic Analysis Using Parsimony (* and Other Methods). Ver. 4. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, Massachusetts. Zander, R. H. 1998. A phylogrammatic evolutionary analysis of the moss genus Didymodon in North America north of Mexico. Bull. Buffalo Soc. Nat. Sci. 36: 81– 115. Zander, R. H. 2001a. A conditional probability of reconstruction measure for internal cladogram branches. Syst. Biol. 50: 425– 437. Zander, R. H. 2001b. Randset: Random Data Set Generator. April 20, 2001. Buffalo Museum of Science. http://www.buffalomuseumofscience.org/div_botany.htm, also available from the author. Citing Literature Volume52, Issue1February 2003Pages 109-112 ReferencesRelatedInformation