Metacanthomorpha: Essay on a Phylogeny-Oriented Database for Morphology—The Acanthomorph (Teleostei) Example

For more than a century, researchers have been trying to reconstruct the history of taxa and their relationships, using morphological, behavioral, ecological, physiological, and lately, cytological, karyological, and molecular characters. Over the last decades, phylogenies based on molecular data ha...

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Published in:Systematic biology 2004-10, Vol.53 (5), p.822-834
Main Authors: Dettai, Agnes, Bailly, Nicolas, Vignes-Lebbe, Régine, Lecointre, Guillaume, Simon, Chris
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Animal morphology
Animals
Biological diversity
Biology
Bones
Classification - methods
Data bases
Databases, Factual
Evolutionary biology
Fishes - anatomy & histology
Genes
Molecules
Observational research
Phylogenetics
Phylogeny
Points of View
Specimens
Structural homology
Taxa
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Summary:For more than a century, researchers have been trying to reconstruct the history of taxa and their relationships, using morphological, behavioral, ecological, physiological, and lately, cytological, karyological, and molecular characters. Over the last decades, phylogenies based on molecular data have grown to become the largest percentage of the publications in this field, and have even been considered by some to hold the keys to the history of life. The molecular data have out-paced the morphological for two main reasons: an ever increasing speed of data acquisition, and several databases like GENBANK, that are easily searchable. Dettai et al describe the basis for a database of morphological characters intended specifically to simplify everyday work in phylogenetic reconstruction based on morphological data.
ISSN:1063-5157
1076-836X
DOI:10.1080/10635150490522313