The study of function is a neglected area of systematic and histotica! biology. Over the last 20 years, systematic biology has expanded to iticlude in its purview the study of many different kinds of patterns, and structural features of all kinds have been the subject of phylogenetic analyses. In addition to macroscopic structural features that have been the traditional source of characters ref...

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Department of Biology, Section of Ecology, University of Turku, FI-20014, Turku, Finland Departments of Genetics, University of Pretoria, Hatfield, 0028, Pretoria, South Africa School of Psychology, University of Dundee, Dundee, DD1 4HN, United Kingdom Institute of Systematic Biology, University of Daugavpils, LV-540, Daugavpils, Latvia Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tar...

Martin Plath1,2,3), Ingo Schlupp1), Jakob Parzefall4) & Rüdiger Riesch1) (1 Department of Zoology, University of Oklahoma, 730 Van Vleet Oval, Norman, OK 73019, USA; 2 University of Potsdam, Institute of Biochemistry and Biology, Unit of Evolutionary Biology and Systematic Zoology, Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 24-25, 14476 Potsdam, Germany; 4 University of Hamburg, Biozentrum Grindel, Department of Beh...

Systematic Biology Publication details, including instructions for authors and subscription information: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t713658732 Hemiplasy: A New Term in the Lexicon of Phylogenetics John C. Avise a; Terence J. Robinson b a Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA b Department of Botany and Zoology, University of...

How to design a robust gene network to tolerate more intrinsic kinetic parameter variations and to attenuate more extrinsic environmental noises to achieve a desired filtering level will be an important topic for systems biology and synthetic biology. At present, there is no good systematic design method to achieve robust gene network design. In this study, a gene network suffering from intrins...