SET-domain (SET: Su(var)3-9, E(z) and Trithorax)-containing proteins were collected through sequence searches of the available databases. After removing redundancies, the proteins belonging to three families, SU(VAR)3-9, E(Z) and TRITHORAX, were selected. Analysis of the relationship between the different members is based on pairwise alignment, compilation, and comparison of their SETdomains. T...

The paper proposes a model for measuring and valuing biodiversity based on evolutionary information, called the phylogenetic tree model. While avoiding the strong restrictions of Weitzman’s [Quart. J. Econ. 107 (1992) 363] “cladistic” approach, the phylogenetic tree model retains much of the mathematical simplicity of the cladistic model. In particular, in the phylogenetic tree model the divers...

nts a cladistic analysis of the de original three orthobothriotaxic chactas ovchinnikovi Gromov ( alaeopisthacanthids and the Ea trichobothria are reported is ividual trichobothrium, ado ium’s development. Of particu s, which the results of this stud n the derivation of orthobothrio ent scorpions, binding between the clades ‘buthids + pseudocha hobothriotaxic types are defined bothrial pattern,...

Cladistics is an abstract and counterintuitive classification of species. In the context of the Museum of Toulouse, it is one of the most important concepts presented to the visitors. To ease the understanding of this classification method and to stimulate the visitors discovering this thematic, we (museologists, designers, computer scientists ...) have envisioned new ways for supporting the ex...

This paper describes a new application of the theory of cladistics to automatic acquisition of lexical ontologies. In the case of life forms, those which are phylogenetically related are expected to share common properties and hence to appear in similar contexts in texts. The procedure has been tested with other words that do not refer to life beings, and a standard phylogenetic algorithm is us...

Metasarcidae Kury, 1994 (Gonyleptoidea) is exclusively distributed in the Andean region of South America, from northern Peru to southern Bolivia. This contribution reviews family using traditional taxonomy and cladistics. The cladistic analysis based on total evidence (TE), maximum likelihood (ML) direct optimization molecular morphological characters. data matrix composed DNA sequences three m...