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American Museum of Natural History, New York: Understanding Cladistics. Brief introduction.
Chris Bell, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Texas, Austin: Life Through Time, Cladistics. Worth checking out: Cladistics Terms.
! BioCollections.org (managed by Julian Humphries, University of Texas and Bill Fink, University of Michigan): The Biodiversity and Biocollections webserver is one of the oldest (ancient by Internet time) sites to provide information about biodiversity, biological collections, and associated software. Go to: DELTA. The DELTA format (DEscription Language for TAxonomy) is a flexible method for encoding taxonomic descriptions for computer processing. It has been adopted by the International Taxonomic Databases Working Group (TDWG) as a standard for data exchange. DELTA-format data can be used to produce natural-language descriptions, conventional or interactive keys, cladistic or phenetic classifications, and information-retrieval systems.
! Biodiversity
Heritage Library.
Ten major natural history museum libraries, botanical libraries, and research institutions
have joined to form the Biodiversity Heritage Library Project. The group is
developing a strategy and operational plan to digitize the published literature
of biodiversity held in their respective collections.
For the first time in history, the core of our natural history and herbaria library
collections will be available to a truly global audience. Browse by titles, authors,
subjects, names, map, or year.
Go to:
Plants.
Currently mor then 1500 titles tagged with "Plants". Superbly done!
Comment: Using "View text" is much quicker (for a first glance)
then "View image".
D.E.G. Briggs, W.L. Crepet, D. Goujet, and G. Plodowski (Paleo21): Systematics - The Sine Qua Non of Paleontology.
Philip Cantino et al., Department of Environmental and Plant Biology, Ohio University, Athens, OH: PhyloCode. The PhyloCode is a formal set of rules governing phylogenetic nomenclature. It is designed to name the parts of the tree of life by explicit reference to phylogeny.
Palaeontology Research Group, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol: Cladestrat. This data base contains results of tests to compare cladograms with stratigraphy. The data sets have been updated to include the 1000 cladograms and molecular trees assessed for fit to stratigraphy by Benton et al. (2000). Go to: Data on Plant Trees. From the review volume by Kenrick and Crane (1997).
The Museum of Paleontology (UCMP), University of California at Berkeley: Why Do Biologists Need Cladistics? and Journey into the World of Cladistics.
L. Borgen, W. Greuter, D. L. Hawksworth, D. H. Nicolson & B. Zimmer, Officers of the International Association for Plant Taxonomy (IAPT): Announcing a test and trial phase for the registration of new plant names (1998-1999). Subject to ratification by the XVI International Botanical Congress (St Louis, 1999) of a rule already included in the International code of botanical nomenclature (Art. 32.1-2 of the Tokyo Code), new names of plants and fungi will have to be registered in order to be validly published after the 1st of January 2000. To demonstrate feasibility of a registration system, IAPT undertakes a trial of registration, on a non-mandatory basis, for a two-years period starting 1 January 1998.
Steven M. Carr, Genetics, Evolution, and Molecular Systematics Laboratory, Department of Biology, # Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Canada: Principles of Systematics. Lecture notes with links.
Cladistics (Elsevier).
Lynne M. Clos, Fossil News: What is Cladistics?
Chris Creevey & James O. McInerney, Bioinformatics Laboratory, Department of Biology, National University of Ireland, Maynooth: Clann. Construction of Supertrees and exploration of phylogenomic information from partially overlapping datasets. This software program is free and it implements the greatest number of phylogenetic supertree methods.
Joe Felsenstein, Department of Genome Sciences and Department of Biology, University of Washington, Seattle: Phylogeny programs available elsewhere. Links to 383 phylogeny packages (free and non-free ones) and 52 free servers.
Vicki Funk, U.S. National Herbarium, Department of Botany, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.; & Michael Donoghue, University Herbaria, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA: Cladistic Literature. A list of cladistic references.
Guido W. Grimm (2005): Tracing the mode and speed of intrageneric evolution: a phylogenetic case study on genus Acer L. (Aceraceae) and genus Fagus L. (Fagaceae) using fossil, morphological, and molecular data. Doctoral thesis (PDF, 33 MB), University of Tübingen.
Guido Grimm, Department of Palaeobotany, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm:
Cladistic analyses of fossil and recent Cycadales
based on morphological and molecular data. See also
here (abstract), and
there (in German).
The International Willi Hennig Society.
David E. Joyce, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Clark University, Worcester, MA: Phylogeny and Reconstructing Phylogenetic Trees. These few pages describe the problem of reconstructing phylogenetic trees. A demo for two Java applets run on the viewer's browser.
Nikita Julievich Kluge, Department of Entomology, S.-Petersburg State University. Russia: General Principles of Biological Systematics. Chapter 1 from the book "Modern Systematics of Insects".
W. Maddison and D. Maddison, University of Arizona: Mesquite. A modular system for evolutionary analysis. To analyze data for evolutionary patterns, biologists are relying increasingly on specialized software. Mesquite, a Java-based software, allow many programmers to contribute building blocks to a common system with platform independence.
Eugene G. Maurakis and William Woolcott, Science Museum of Virginia, Richmond: Phylogenetic Systematics Video. The video, accompanied by an instructor´s guide, is an educational tool that can be used as an introduction to phylogenectic systematics. With costs.
! Society of Australian Systematic Biologists (SASB): Introductory Glossary of Cladistic Terms.
! Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
Systematics,
Taxonomy,
Cladistics,
Phylogenetics,
Botanical
nomenclature,
Scientific
classification.
Hugh D. Wilson, Department of Biology Herbarium (TAMU), Texas A&M University (with support from the Texas A&M Center for the Study of Digital Libraries), BOTANY 201--TAXONOMY OF FLOWERING PLANTS: Lab 1 - Exercise in Basic Taxonomy: Classification, Nomenclature, and Identification.
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