Application of Phylogenetic Taxonomy to Poorly Resolved Crown Clades: A Stem-Modified Node-Based Definition of Rodentia

1996/12/01 by André R. Wyss, Jin Meng · 1 citation
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Mathematics · #Evolution and Paleontology Studies #Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology #Morphological variations and asymmetry #Clade #Biology #Phylogenetic tree #Taxonomy (biology) #Evolutionary biology #Crown (dentistry) #Phylogenetic nomenclature #Phylogenetics #Zoology #Gene #Genetics

paper · doi:10.1093/sysbio/45.4.559

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Abstract

Phylogenetic taxonomy (de Queiroz and Gauthier, 1990, 1992) entails the naming of clades, a procedure distinct from and sec? ondary to the process of clade recognition. Current procedures for defining taxon names in terms of common ancestry were developed in the context of well-resolved (usually dichotomously branching) phy? logenies. Because of the recent discovery of a fossil bearing importantly on the origin of rodents (Meng et al., 1994), we intro? duce here a new way of stating phyloge? netic definitions for the names of clades

Citations

• AMNIOTE PHYLOGENY AND THE IMPORTANCE OF FOSSILS
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