Molecular phylogenies map to biogeography better than morphological ones

JW Oyston, M Wilkinson, M Ruta, MA Wills - Communications Biology, 2022 - nature.com
Phylogenetic relationships are inferred principally from two classes of data: morphological
and molecular. Currently, most phylogenies of extant taxa are inferred from molecules and …

Why should we compare morphological and molecular disparity?

C Van Den Ende, MN Puttick… - Methods in Ecology …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Indices of morphological disparity seek to summarise the highly multivariate morphological
variation across groups of species within clades, time bins or other groups. Morphological …

Fossilization can mislead analyses of phenotypic disparity

TJ Smith, RS Sansom, D Pisani… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Analyses of morphological disparity can incorporate living and fossil taxa to facilitate the
exploration of how phenotypic variation changes through time. However, taphonomic …

Categorical versus geometric morphometric approaches to characterizing the evolution of morphological disparity in Osteostraci (Vertebrata, stem Gnathostomata)

HG Ferron, JM Greenwood, B Deline… - …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Morphological variation (disparity) is almost invariably characterized by two non‐mutually
exclusive approaches:(1) quantitatively, through geometric morphometrics; and (2) in terms …

Phylogenetic congruence, conflict and consilience between molecular and morphological data

JN Keating, RJ Garwood, RS Sansom - BMC Ecology and Evolution, 2023 - Springer
Morphology and molecules are important data sources for estimating evolutionary
relationships. Modern studies often utilise morphological and molecular partitions alongside …

Phylogenetic relationships of ghost slugs (Selenochlamys) and overlooked instances of limacization in Western Palaearctic Limacoidei (Gastropoda …

MT Neiber, F Walther, B Hausdorf - Molecular phylogenetics and evolution, 2020 - Elsevier
We analysed the phylogenetic relationships of the enigmatic ghost slug Selenochlamys with
other Western Palaearctic Limacoidei based on mitochondrial and nuclear sequences …

[PDF][PDF] Morphological disparity and its correlates across clades

C van den Ende, MA Wills, A Urrutia, MN Puttick… - 2022 - researchportal.bath.ac.uk
Morphological disparity refers to the degree of difference in physical form or structure among
a group of different, but related species (clade) or other operational taxonomic units (eg …