Journeys through discrete-character morphospace: synthesizing phylogeny, tempo, and disparity

Morphological convergence in ‘river dolphin’ skulls

(2017) Charlotte E. Page et al.   PeerJ

Adult frogs and tadpoles have different macroevolutionary patterns across the Australian continent

(2017) Emma Sherratt et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Phenotypic Innovation and Adaptive Constraints in the Evolutionary Radiation of Palaeozoic Crinoids

(2017) David F. Wright   Scientific Reports

Magnitude versus direction of change and the contribution of macroevolutionary trends to morphological disparity

(2016) Melanie J. Hopkins   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Estimating morphological diversity and tempo with discrete character-taxon matrices: implementation, challenges, progress, and future directions

(2016) Graeme T. Lloyd   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Bayesian methods outperform parsimony but at the expense of precision in the estimation of phylogeny from discrete morphological data

(2016) Joseph E. O'Reilly et al.   Biology Letters

The definition, recognition, and interpretation of convergent evolution, and two new measures for quantifying and assessing the significance of convergence

(2015) C. Tristan Stayton   EVOLUTION

The size of the character state space affects the occurrence and detection of homoplasy: Modelling the probability of incompatibility for unordered phylogenetic characters

(2015) Jennifer Hoyal Cuthill   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

The morphological state space revisited: what do phylogenetic patterns in homoplasy tell us about the number of possible character states?

(2015) Jennifer F. Hoyal Cuthill   Interface Focus

What limits the morphological disparity of clades?

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

Gradual Assembly of Avian Body Plan Culminated in Rapid Rates of Evolution across the Dinosaur-Bird Transition

(2014) Stephen L. Brusatte et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Bayesian Analysis Using a Simple Likelihood Model Outperforms Parsimony for Estimation of Phylogeny from Discrete Morphological Data

(2014) April M. Wright et al.   PLoS One

paleotree: an R package for paleontological and phylogenetic analyses of evolution

(2012) David W. Bapst   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

HOW DO GEOLOGICAL SAMPLING BIASES AFFECT STUDIES OF MORPHOLOGICAL EVOLUTION IN DEEP TIME? A CASE STUDY OF PTEROSAUR (REPTILIA: ARCHOSAURIA) DISPARITY

(2011) Richard J. Butler et al.   EVOLUTION

Phylogenetic corrections for morphological disparity analysis: new methodology and case studies

(2010) Stephen L. Brusatte et al.   PALEOBIOLOGY

A formula for maximum possible steps in multistate characters: isolating matrix parameter effects on measures of evolutionary convergence

(2009) Jennifer F. Hoyal Cuthill et al.   CLADISTICS

CONTINUOUS AND ARRESTED MORPHOLOGICAL DIVERSIFICATION IN SISTER CLADES OF CHARACIFORM FISHES: A PHYLOMORPHOSPACE APPROACH

(2008) Brian Sidlauskas   EVOLUTION