Phylogenetic incongruence and homoplasy in the appendages and bodies of arthropods: why broad character sampling is best

The prevalence of terraced treescapes in analyses of phylogenetic data sets

(2018) Barbara H. Dobrin et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Complex dynamics underlie the evolution of imperfect wing pattern convergence in butterflies

(2017) Susan D. Finkbeiner et al.   EVOLUTION

Convergent and unidirectional evolution of extremely long aedeagi in the largest feather mite genus, Proctophyllodes (Acari: Proctophyllodidae): Evidence from comparative molecular and morphological phylogenetics

(2017) Pavel B. Klimov et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Open data and digital morphology

(2017) Thomas G. Davies et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Differences between hard and soft phylogenetic data

(2017) Robert S. Sansom et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Phylogenetic position of a remarkable new fideliine bee from northern Chile (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae)

(2017) LAURENCE PACKER et al.   SYSTEMATIC ENTOMOLOGY

Shape variation of prey-catching structures in geophilomorph centipedes: A preliminary investigation using geometric morphometrics

(2017) Matteo Baiocco et al.   ZOOLOGISCHER ANZEIGER

Revision of Family Megacalanidae (Copepoda: Calanoida)

(2017) JANET M. BRADFORD-GRIEVE et al.   ZOOTAXA

Phylogeny of the taxon Paralaophontodes Lang (Copepoda, Harpacticoida, Laophontodinae), including species descriptions, chorological remarks, and a key to species

(2017) Kai Horst George   Zoosystematics and Evolution

Convergent Evolution of Unique Morphological Adaptations to a Subterranean Environment in Cave Millipedes (Diplopoda)

(2017) Weixin Liu et al.   PLoS One

Sampling diverse characters improves phylogenies: Craniodental and postcranial characters of vertebrates often imply different trees

(2016) Ross C. P. Mounce et al.   EVOLUTION

Molecular phylogeny reveals genital convergences and reversals in the barklouse genus Trichadenotecnum (Insecta: Psocodea: ‘Psocoptera’: Psocidae)

(2016) Kazunori Yoshizawa et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Comparable disparity in the appendicular skeleton across the fish-tetrapod transition, and the morphological gap between fish and tetrapod postcrania

(2016) Marcello Ruta et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

Terrace Aware Data Structure for Phylogenomic Inference from Supermatrices

(2016) Olga Chernomor et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Measuring Stratigraphic Congruence Across Trees, Higher Taxa, and Time

(2016) Anne O'Connor et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

A phylogeny-based revision of the family Luciferidae (Crustacea: Decapoda)

(2016) Alexander L. Vereshchaka et al.   ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Revised phylogenetic analysis of the Aetosauria (Archosauria: Pseudosuchia); assessing the effects of incongruent morphological character sets

(2016) William G. Parker   PeerJ

Exploring the origin of insect wings from an evo-devo perspective

(2016) Courtney M Clark-Hachtel et al.   Current Opinion in Insect Science

The Origin of Large-Bodied Shrimp that Dominate Modern Global Aquaculture

(2016) Javier Robalino et al.   PLoS One

Why should we investigate the morphological disparity of plant clades?

(2015) Jack W. Oyston et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

A morphological supermatrix-based phylogeny for the Neotropical fish superfamily Anostomoidea (Ostariophysi: Characiformes): phylogeny, missing data and homoplasy

(2015) Casey B. Dillman et al.   CLADISTICS

Insect evolution

(2015) Michael S. Engel   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Reconstructing ancient genomes and epigenomes

(2015) Ludovic Orlando et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Molecular phylogeny reveals the repeated evolution of complex male genital traits in the New Zealand moth genusIzatha(Lepidoptera: Xyloryctidae)

(2015) REBECCA M. BENNIK et al.   SYSTEMATIC ENTOMOLOGY

DNA analyses reveal abundant homoplasy in taxonomically important morphological characters of Eusiroidea (Crustacea, Amphipoda)

(2015) Marie L. Verheye et al.   ZOOLOGICA SCRIPTA

Out of the twilight zone: phylogeny and evolutionary morphology of the orb-weaving spider family Mysmenidae, with a focus on spinneret spigot morphology in symphytognathoids (Araneae, Araneoidea)

(2015) Lara Lopardo et al.   ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Phylogeny and taxonomy of the enigmatic genusPetalidium(Decapoda, Sergestidae), with biological remarks

(2015) Alexander L. Vereshchaka et al.   ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

What limits the morphological disparity of clades?

(2015) Jack W. Oyston et al.   Interface Focus

Systematics and cladistics of a new Naupactini genus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Entiminae) from the Andes of Colombia and Ecuador

(2015) MARÍA GUADALUPE DEL RÍO et al.   ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Phylogenetic analysis of the Paulsoni species group (Decapoda : Alpheidae) from the American Pacific, with implications for the phylogenetic classification of the genus Synalpheus

(2015) M. Hermoso-Salazar et al.   ZOOTAXA

Good-bye Scydmaenidae, or why the ant-like stone beetles should become megadiverse Staphylinidae sensu latissimo (Coleoptera)

(2014) Vasily V. GREBENNIKOV et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF ENTOMOLOGY

Phylogenetic relationships within the snapping shrimp genus Synalpheus (Decapoda: Alpheidae)

(2014) Kristin M. Hultgren et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Phylogenetic analysis at deep timescales: Unreliable gene trees, bypassed hidden support, and the coalescence/concatalescence conundrum

(2014) John Gatesy et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

A Paleogenomic Perspective on Evolution and Gene Function: New Insights from Ancient DNA

(2014) B. Shapiro et al.   SCIENCE

Bias and Sensitivity in the Placement of Fossil Taxa Resulting from Interpretations of Missing Data

(2014) Robert S. Sansom   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Phylogeny, Paleontology, and Primates: Do Incomplete Fossils Bias the Tree of Life?

(2014) David J. Pattinson et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

The Emergence of Lobsters: Phylogenetic Relationships, Morphological Evolution and Divergence Time Comparisons of an Ancient Group (Decapoda: Achelata, Astacidea, Glypheidea, Polychelida)

(2014) Heather D. Bracken-Grissom et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Urstylidae - a new family of abyssal isopods (Crustacea: Asellota) and its phylogenetic implications

(2014) Torben Riehl et al.   ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Revival of forgotten characters and modern imaging techniques help to produce a robust phylogeny of the Diplopoda (Arthropoda, Myriapoda)

(2013) Alexander Blanke et al.   ARTHROPOD STRUCTURE & DEVELOPMENT

Walk it off: predictive power of appendicular characters toward inference of higher-level relationships in Laniatores (Arachnida: Opiliones)

(2013) Guilherme Gainett et al.   CLADISTICS

Phylogeny and systematics of extant and extinct lobsters

(2013) Hiroaki Karasawa et al.   JOURNAL OF CRUSTACEAN BIOLOGY

Complete mitochondrial genome sequence of a Middle Pleistocene cave bear reconstructed from ultrashort DNA fragments

(2013) J. Dabney et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

On the largest chelodesmid millipedes: taxonomic review and cladistic analysis of the genusOdontopeltis Pocock, 1894 (Diplopoda; Polydesmida; Chelodesmidae)

(2013) João P. P. Pena-Barbosa et al.   ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

A revision of the genus Afroheterozercon (Acari: Heterozerconidae)

(2013) HANS KLOMPEN et al.   ZOOTAXA

Arthropod fossil data increase congruence of morphological and molecular phylogenies

(2013) David A. Legg et al.   Nature Communications

Fossilization causes organisms to appear erroneously primitive by distorting evolutionary trees

(2013) Robert S. Sansom et al.   Scientific Reports

Phylogenetic placement of pelican spiders (Archaeidae, Araneae), with insight into evolution of the “neck” and predatory behaviours of the superfamily Palpimanoidea

(2012) Hannah Marie Wood et al.   CLADISTICS

Terrestrial arthropods from the Late Pleistocene of Jamaica: systematics, palaeoecology and taphonomy

(2012) Els Baalbergen et al.   GEOLOGICAL JOURNAL

Phylotranscriptomics to Bring the Understudied into the Fold: Monophyletic Ostracoda, Fossil Placement, and Pancrustacean Phylogeny

(2012) Todd H. Oakley et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Early Evolution and Historical Biogeography of Fishflies (Megaloptera: Chauliodinae): Implications from a Phylogeny Combining Fossil and Extant Taxa

(2012) Xingyue Liu et al.   PLoS One

MorphoBank: phylophenomics in the “cloud”

(2011) Maureen A. O’Leary et al.   CLADISTICS

Phylogeny of the semiaquatic bugs (Hemiptera-Heteroptera, Gerromorpha)

(2011) Jakob Damgaard   INSECT SYSTEMATICS & EVOLUTION

Cladistic analysis of the calanoid Copepoda

(2011) Janet M. Bradford-Grieve et al.   INVERTEBRATE SYSTEMATICS

Molecular phylogeny of the Calanoida (Crustacea: Copepoda)

(2011) Leocadio Blanco-Bercial et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

On the head morphology of Grylloblattodea (Insecta) and the systematic position of the order, with a new nomenclature for the head muscles of Dicondylia

(2011) BENJAMIN WIPFLER et al.   SYSTEMATIC ENTOMOLOGY

Definition and Revision of the Orthrius-group of genera (Coleoptera, Cleridae, Clerinae)

(2011) Robert Gerstmeier et al.   ZooKeys

Cachiporrini, a remarkable new tribe of Lamprosomatinae (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae) from South America

(2011) Maria Chamorro et al.   ZooKeys

Phylogeny and taxonomic revision of Heteropachylinae (Opiliones: Laniatores: Gonyleptidae)

(2011) AMANDA CRUZ MENDES   ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Phylogeny and coevolutionary associations of makialgine mites (Acari, Psoroptidae, Makialginae) provide insight into evolutionary history of their hosts, strepsirrhine primates

(2011) ANDRE V. BOCHKOV et al.   ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Testing the phylogenetic utility of morphological character systems, with a revision of Creophilus Leach (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae)

(2011) DAVE J. CLARKE   ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Phylogeny of the millipede order Spirobolida (Arthropoda: Diplopoda: Helminthomorpha)

(2010) Kevin M. Pitz et al.   CLADISTICS

The integrative future of taxonomy

(2010) Jose M. Padial et al.   Frontiers in Zoology

Phylogeny of the freshwater copepod Mesocyclops (Crustacea: Cyclopidae) based on combined molecular and morphological data, with notes on biogeography

(2010) Grace A. Wyngaard et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Galatheoidea are not monophyletic – Molecular and morphological phylogeny of the squat lobsters (Decapoda: Anomura) with recognition of a new superfamily

(2010) K.E. Schnabel et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Non-random decay of chordate characters causes bias in fossil interpretation

(2010) Robert S. Sansom et al.   NATURE

A reanalysis of Parabuthus (Scorpiones: Buthidae) phylogeny with descriptions of two new Parabuthus species endemic to the Central Namib gravel plains, Namibia

(2010) LORENZO PRENDINI et al.   ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Identifying patterns of diversity of the actinopterygian fulcra

(2009) Gloria Arratia   ACTA ZOOLOGICA

Eumalacostracan phylogeny and total evidence: limitations of the usual suspects

(2009) Ronald A Jenner et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

A first phylogenetic analysis of Giant Pill-Millipedes (Diplopoda: Sphaerotheriida), a new model Gondwanan taxon, with special emphasis on island gigantism

(2009) Thomas Wesener et al.   CLADISTICS

Comparison of phylogenetic signal between male genitalia and non-genital characters in insect systematics

(2009) Hojun Song et al.   CLADISTICS

Phylogeny of penaeoid shrimps (Decapoda: Penaeoidea) inferred from nuclear protein-coding genes

(2009) K.Y. Ma et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Evidence for modular evolution in a long-tailed pterosaur with a pterodactyloid skull

(2009) J. Lu et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Phylogenetic implications of gizzard morphology in scolopendromorph centipedes (Chilopoda)

(2009) Markus Koch et al.   ZOOLOGICA SCRIPTA

Morphological Integration and Developmental Modularity

(2008) Christian Peter Klingenberg   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Phylogeny of Grumichellini Morse, 1981 (Trichoptera: Leptoceridae) with the description of a new genus from southeastern Peru

(2008) Adolfo R. Calor et al.   AQUATIC INSECTS

TNT, a free program for phylogenetic analysis

(2008) Pablo A. Goloboff et al.   CLADISTICS

How oniscophagous spiders overcome woodlouse armour

(2008) M. Řezáč et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Erratic rates of molecular evolution and incongruence of fossil and molecular divergence time estimates in Ostracoda (Crustacea)

(2008) Oive Tinn et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Origin and diversification of the clawed lobster genus Metanephrops (Crustacea: Decapoda: Nephropidae)

(2008) Tin-Yam Chan et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Fossil evidence for the origin of spider spinnerets, and a proposed arachnid order

(2008) P. A. Selden et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Modified Gap Excess Ratio (GER*) and the Stratigraphic Congruence of Dinosaur Phylogenies

(2008) Matthew A. Wills et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Mosaicism, Modules, and the Evolution of Birds: Results from a Bayesian Approach to the Study of Morphological Evolution Using Discrete Character Data

(2008) Julia A. Clarke et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Reciprocal illumination of morphological characters upon a molecular hypothesis supports the proposal of a new species of cycad from Mexico

(2008) Fernando Nicolalde‐Morejón et al.   SYSTEMATICS AND BIODIVERSITY

Impact of increased character sampling on the phylogeny of Cetartiodactyla (Mammalia): combined analysis including fossils

(2007) Maureen A. O'Leary et al.   CLADISTICS