The history of long‐branch attraction, and in particular methods suggested to detect and
avoid the artifact to date, is reviewed. Methods suggested to avoid LBA‐artifacts include …

Abstract Persian or English walnut (Juglans regia L.), the walnut species cultivated for nut
production, is one of the oldest food sources known. Persian walnuts, native to the mountain …

Winner, 2010 PROSE Award for Excellence in the Biological Sciences. Professional and
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Marine environmental monitoring has tended to focus on site-specific methods of
investigation. These traditional methods have low spatial and temporal resolution and are …

In recent years, avian systematics has been characterized by a diminished reliance on
morphological cladistics of modern taxa, intensive palaeornithogical research stimulated by …

We live in the age of comparative genomics, and it may seem that there is not much point in
reconstructing phylogenies using morphological data anymore. As more and more genes …

Systematics has developed rapidly during the past two decades. A multitude of new
methods and contributions from a diversity of biological fields including molecular genetics …

Phylogenetic relationships among major clades of butterflies and skippers have long been
controversial, with no general consensus even today. Such lack of resolution is a substantial …

Suprafamilial relationships among characiform fishes and implications for the taxonomy and
biogeographic history of the Characiformes were investigated by parsimony analysis of four …

This work serves as a compendium of anatomical resources upon which a companion
phylogenetic analysis of Aves and related Theropoda (Avialae) was based. Following a brief …