REGULAR ARTICLES

• The Effects of Topological Inaccuracy in Evolutionary Trees on the Phylogenetic Comparative Method of Independent Contrasts – Matthew R.E. Symonds
  
  
• Analysis of Color Spectra in Comparative Evolutionary Studies: Molecular Phylogeny and Habitat Adaptation in the St. Vincent Anole (Anolis trinitatis) – Roger S. Thorpe
  
  
• Perils of Paralogy: Using HSP70 Genes for Inferring Organismal Phylogenies – Andrew Martin and Theresa M. Burg
  
  
• Increased Taxon Sampling Greatly Reduces Phylogenetic Error – Derrick J. Zwickl and David M. Hillis
  
  
• A Genomic Schism in Birds Revealed by Phylogenetic Analysis of DNA Strings – Scott V. Edwards , Bernard Fertil, Alain Giron and Patrick J. Deschavanne
  
  

POINTS OF VIEW

• Examining Basal Avian Divergences with Mitochondrial Sequences: Model Complexity, Taxon Sampling, and Sequence Length – Edward L. Braun and Rebecca T. Kimball
  
  
• The Utility of the Incongruence Length Difference Test – F. Keith Barker and François M. Lutzoni
  
  
• Phylogeny Reconstruction and Functional Constraints in Organellar Genomes: Plastid atpB and rbcL Sequences versus Animal Mitochondrion – Vincent Savolainen, Mark W. Chase, Nicolas Salamin, Douglas E. Soltis, Pamela S. Soltis, Andrés Lopez, Olivier Fédrigo and Gavin J. P. Naylor
  
  
• Units in Biogeography – Bernhard Hausdorf
  
  
• Resolution of a Supertree/Supermatrix Paradox – John Gatesy, Conrad Matthee, Rob Desalle, and Cheryl Hayashi
  Gatesy et al. Data File
  
  
• Increased Taxon Sampling is Advantageous for Phylogenetic Inference – David D. Pollock, Derrick J. Zwickl, Jimmy A. McGuire, and David M. Hillis