Volume 49, Number 1, March 1999

Contents

• SYMPOSIUM ON SYSTEMATICS AND THE EVOLUTION OF DEVELOPMENTAL PATTERNS
  • Systematics and the evolution of developmental patterns---Billie J. Swalla and Andres Collazo. [No Abstract]
  • Developmental variation, homology, and the pharyngula stage---Andres Collazo. Abstract
  • Transformationalism, taxism, and developmental biology in systematics---Ranhy Bang, Rob DeSalle, and Ward Wheeler. Abstract
  • Developmental regulatory genes and echinoderm evolution---Gregory A. Wray and Christopher J. Lowe. Abstract
  • Urochordates are monophyletic within the deuterostomes---Billie J. Swalla, Chris B. Cameron, Laura S. Corley, and James R. Garey. Abstract

Swalla et al. data set

• REGULAR ARTICLES
  • The quality of the fossil record and the accuracy of phylogenetic inferences about sampling and diversity---Peter J. Wagner. Abstract
  • Phylogenetic relationship among horshshoe crab species: effect of substitution models on phylogenetic analyses---Xuhua Xia. Abstract

Xia data set--Microsoft Word 98
Xia data set--pdf
Xia data set--text

• Is there a justification for differential a priori weighting in coding sequences? A case study from rbcL and Apocynaceae s.l.---Bengt Sennblad and Birgitta Bremer. Abstract
• Mitochondrial phylogeny of notothenioids: a molecular approach to Antarctic fish evolution and biogeography---Luca Bargelloni, Stefania Marcato, Lorenzo Zane, and Tomaso Patarnello. Abstract

Bargelloni et al. data set1
Bargelloni et al. data set2

• Early evolution of the Bilateria---Bernhard Hausdorf. Abstract

Hausdorf data set--6 taxa
Hausdorf data set--7 taxa

• War of the iguanas: conflicting molecular and morphological phylogenies and long-branch attraction in iguanid lizards---John J. Wiens and Bradford D. Hollingsworth. Abstract

Wiens and Hollingsworth data set

 

• POINTS OF VIEW
  • Comparison of three methods for estimating internal support on phylogenetic trees---Mark E. Mort, Pamela S. Soltis, Douglas E. Soltis, and Michelle L. Mabry.
  • A simulation study of reduced tree-search effort in bootstrap resampling analysis---Ronald W. DeBry and Richard G. Olmstead.