The value of any kind of data is greatly enhanced when it exists in a form that allows it to be
integrated with other data. One approach to integration is through the annotation of multiple …

Morphology has traditionally played a pivotal role in animal phylogeny since the first
evolutionary biologists began to decipher the animal tree of life. In recent times, however …

ABSTRACT A phylogenetic analysis of the two-clawed spiders grouped in Dionycha is
presented, with 166 representative species of 49 araneomorph families, scored for 393 …

Hymenoptera is an extraordinarily diverse lineage, both in terms of species numbers and
morphotypes, that includes sawflies, bees, wasps, and ants. These organisms serve critical …

Understanding the history and philosophy of biological systematics (phylogenetics,
taxonomy and classification of living things) is key to successful practice of the discipline. In …

Background Invertebrate nervous systems are highly disparate between different taxa. This
is reflected in the terminology used to describe them, which is very rich and often confusing …

Despite a large and multifaceted effort to understand the vast landscape of phenotypic data,
their current form inhibits productive data analysis. The lack of a community-wide …

Here, I combine previously underutilized models and priors to perform more biologically
realistic phylogenetic inference from morphological data, with an example from squamate …

Efforts to reconstruct the phylogenetic history of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) have been
boosted in the last few years by accumulation of comprehensive molecular data sets …

The advent of numerical methods for analysing phylogenetic relationships, along with the
study of morphology and molecular data, has driven our understanding of animal …