The major contributions of John N. Belkin to the field of mosquito systematics are noted. Hallmarks of his publications are presented and his hypotheses about the evolution, speciation, competition, distribution and classification of mosquitoes are summarized. The current status of the field of mosquito systematics is examined. It is argued that mosquito systematics is still largely at the alph...

DNA sequence data have offered valuable insights into the relationships between living organisms. However, most phylogenetic analyses of DNA sequences rely primarily on single nucleotide substitutions, which might not be perfect phylogenetic markers. Rare genomic changes (RGCs), such as intron indels, retroposon integrations, signature sequences, mitochondrial and chloroplast gene order changes...

We contend that the move away from providing character evidence with phylogenies has diminished fish systematics and systematics in general, and amounts to a crisis. Present practices focus on solutions to matrices rather than on character homology, and rely on algorithms and statistics rather than biology to determine relationships. Optimization procedures in tree-building programs are pheneti...

Lotti Tajouri, Micky Ovcaric, Rob Curtain, Rod Lea, Matthew Johnson, Peter Csurhes, Michael P. Pender and Lyn R. Griffiths Genomics Research Centre, School of Health Science, Griffith University Gold Coast, Southport, Queensland, Australia 4215 2Neuroimmunology Research Centre, School of Medicine, University of Queensland; and Department of Neurology, Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital, Hersto...

jPHYDIT is a Java application designed to furnish a visual and integrated environment for molecular phylogeny. The program can be used to visualize intra-strand base-pairing information in secondary and tertiary structures of ribosomal RNA (rRNA) sequences. A function for the semi-automated alignment was included to facilitate handling of the database containing a large number of multiple-align...

Amphibia and its major groups are defined according to principles of phylogenetic taxonomy, and the implications of the definitions for amphibian systematics are discussed. The results of phylogenetic analyses of Amphibia, Anura, Caudata, and Gymnophiona from morphological and molecular studies are compared, based on papers published in the symposium "Amphibian relationships: Phylogenetic analy...

Spatially varying depth and the characteristics of observing conditions, such as seeing, airmass, or sky background, are major sources of systematic uncertainties in modern galaxy survey analyses, particularly in deep multi-epoch The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 226:24 (13pp), 2016 October doi:10.3847/0067-0049/226/2/24 © 2016. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved....

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Supplementary data tml http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/suppl/2011/07/21/rspb.2011.1355.DC1.h "Data Supplement" References ml#ref-list-1 http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/early/2011/07/21/rspb.2011.1355.full.ht This article cites 62 articles, 22 of which can be accessed free P<P Published online 27 July 2011 in advance of the print journal. Subject collections (2833 a...