• Stochastic search strategy for estimation of maximum likelihood phylogenetic trees---Laura A. Salter and Dennis K. Pearl.
  
  
• Molecular and morphological phylogenetic analysis of an insular radiation in Pacific black flies (Simulium)---Deidre A. Joy and Jan E. Conn.
  • Joy and Conn 12S data set
  • Joy and Conn COI data set
  • Joy and Conn morphology data set
    
    
• Incongruence of mitochondrial and nuclear gene trees in the carabid beetles Ohomopterus---Teiji Sota and Alfried P. Vogler.
  • Sota and Vogler data set
    
    
• Changing the landscape: a new strategy for estimating large phylogenies---Donald L.J. Quicke, Jason Taylor, and Andy Purvis.
  
  
• Exploring among-site rate variation models in a maximum likelihood framework using empirical data: effects of model assumptions on estimates of topology, branch lenghts, and bootstrap support---Thomas R. Buckley, Chris Simon, and Geoffrey K. Chambers.
  
  
• Phylogenetic utility of different types of molecular data used to infer evolutionary relationships among stalk-eyed flies (Diopsidae)---Richard H. Baker, Gerald S. Wilkinson, and Rob DeSalle.
  
  • Baker et al data set
    
    
• A partioned likelihood analysis of swallowtail butterfly phylogeny (Lepidoptera:Papilionidae)---Michael S. Caterino, Robert D. Reed, May M. Kuo, and Felix A.H. Sperling
  • Caterino et al data set
    

POINTS OF VIEW

• Taxon sampling and the phylogenetic position of passeriformes: evidence from 916 avian cytochrome b sequences---Kevin P. Johnson.
  
  
• Useful characters in gastropod phylogeny: soft information or hard facts?—Christoffer Schander and Per Sundberg.
  
  
• Landmark coordinates aligned by Procrustes analysis do not lie in Kendall’s shape space---Dennis E. Slice.