Volume 46, Number 2, June 1997

CONTENTS

Abstracts only

• Tests of turtle phylogeny: molecular, morphological, and paleontological approaches--- H. Bradley Shaffer, Peter Meylan, and Mark L. McKnight
  
• A new nuclear gene for insect phylogenetics: dopa decarboxylase is informative of relationships within heliothinae (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae)--- Q. Q. Fang, Soowon Cho, Jerome C. Regier, Charles Mitter, Marcus Matthews, Robert W. Poole, Timothy P. Friedlander, and Suwei Zhao
  
• Molecular systematics of short-horned lizards: biogeography and taxonomy of a widespread species complex--- Kelly R. Zamudio, K. Bruce Jones, and Ryk H. Ward
  
• The average consensus procedure: combination of weighted trees containing identical or overlapping sets of taxa--- Fran¨ois-Joseph Lapointe and Guy Cucumel
  
• A comparison of phylogenetic nomenclature with the current system: a botanical case study--- Philip D. Cantino, Richard G. Olmstead, and Steven J. Wagstaff
  
• Accuracy of phylogenetic analysis including and excluding polymorphic characters--- John J. Wiens and Maria R. Servedio
  
• Site-by-site estimation of the rate of substitution and the correlation of rates in mitochondrial DNA--- Rasmus Nielsen
  

• On the Consistency of Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Phylogenetic Trees from Nucleotide Sequences--- James S. Rogers
  
• The Data, the Matrix, and the Message: Comments on Begle's "Relationships of the Osmeroid Fishes"--- Colin Patterson and G. David Johnson
  

• Homology. The Hierarchical Basis of Comparative Biology. Brian K. Hall (ed.). 1994. Academic Press, San Diego, California. 483 pp. $54.95.--- David Cannatella
  
• Homoplasy. The Recurrence of Similarity in Evolution. Michael J. Sanderson and Larry Hufford (eds.). 1996. Academic Press, San Diego, California. 339 pp. $69.95.--- David Cannatella
  

Illustration copyright Rachel Taylor 1996, racheltaylor@compuserve.com