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American Museum of Natural History, New York: Understanding Cladistics (PDF files). Background information about cladistics.
J.C. Avise (2009): Timetrees: beyond cladograms, phenograms, and phylograms. PDF file, In: S.B. Hedges and S. Kumar (eds.): The Timetree of Life.
Günter Bechly, SMNS, Stuttgart: Glossary of Phylogenetic Systematics with a critic of mainstream cladism.
Chris Bell, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Texas, Austin: Life Through Time, Cladistics. Worth checking out: Cladistics Terms.
Michael J. Benton, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol: Finding the tree of life: matching phylogenetic trees to the fossil record through the 20th century. PDF file, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B 268, 2123-2130.
Michael J. Benton, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol: Stems, nodes, crown clades, and rank-free lists: is Linnaeus dead? Biological Reviews, vol. 75; November, 2000 (in press).
! University of California Museum of Paleontology, Berkeley (with support provided by the National Science Foundation and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute): Understanding Evolution. Understanding Evolution is a non-commercial, education website, teaching the science and history of evolutionary biology. Go to: Phylogenetic systematics, a.k.a. evolutionary trees. This tutorial gives information about how to read, reconstruct and use an evolutionary tree and how to classify organisms based on evolutionary trees. Superbly done!
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The Museum of Paleontology (UCMP), University of California at Berkeley:
Journey into the World of
Phylogenetic Systematics. Introduction to cladistics, their methodology and implications
and about the need for cladistics. Excellent!
See especially:
An Introduction to Cladistics.
Cladistics in brief.
Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley: Plant Biology - Evolution - Ecology. Go to: Online Archived Lectures, General Biology. Video lectures (RealMedia Format).
Biology-Nation. This website provides resources for anyone with an interest in biology. (see also Biology-Nation.com Whois Record). Many links lead to Wikipedia. Go to: Introduction to Taxonomy and Introduction to Cladistics.
Department of Geological Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO: Web-based instruction. Annotated links to information on using the web to teach. Go to: CzPaleobotany. Go to: Cenozoic Elevation of the Rocky Mountains, Paleobotanical Methods. About fossil classification (nearest living relative, physiognomy and CLAMP) and climate and elevation analysis.
Stuart M. Brown, NYU Medical Center: Cladistic methods, and Introduction to Phylogenetics.
! Cantino, P.D. and K. de Queiroz, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio: The PhyloCode. A phylogenetic code of biological nomenclature. The development of the PhyloCode grew out of a recognition that the current Linnaean system of nomenclature, as embodied in the preexisting botanical, zoological, and bacteriological codes, is not well suited to govern the naming of clades and species.
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.
Lynne M. Clos, Fossil News: What is Cladistics?
J. Cracraft (1981): Pattern and process in paleobiology: the role of cladistic analysis in systematic paleontology. In PDF, Paleobiology.
Cyberinfrastructure for Phylogenetic Research (CIPRES).
Building the Tree of Life: A National Resource for Phyloinformatics and Computational
Phylogenetics. CIPRES is a collaboration of many american museums and institutions. Go to:
What is Phylogeny?
An introduction to phylogenetic trees and what they represent. See also:
What can phylogenies be used for?
and about
the practical importance of the Tree of Life
(a brochure from the National Science Foundation, in PDF).
Deep Green - Green Plant Phylogeny Research Coordination Group (supported by National Science Foundation). The "Tree of Life" for plants. Two interactive versions are given: one is for reasearch and one is for teaching.
J.A. Doyle, and M.D. Donoghue: Seed plant phylogeny and the origin of angiosperms: An experimental cladistic approach. Abstract, Bot. Rev. 52: 321-431.
Alexander Edens, Hartnell College, Salinas, CA: Biology Tutorials. Tutorials on several important biology topics. Powerpoint presentations. Go to: Taxonomy and Phylogeny.
Niles Eldredge, American Museum of Natural History: Spectrum of Life. 28 major groups of organisms organized into basic divisions of life, explained in a nutshell.
P.K. Endress and J.A. Doyle (2009): Reconstructing the ancestral angiosperm flower and its initial specializations. PDF file, American Journal of Botany, 96: 22-66.
! Joe Felsenstein, Department of Genome Sciences and Department of Biology, University of Washington, Seattle: PHYLIP. PHYLIP is a free package of programs for inferring phylogenies. It is distributed as source code, documentation files, and a number of different types of executables. Go to: Phylogeny Programs. The programs listed here include both free and non-free ones.
Peter Forey, Natural History Museum, London: Cladistics for Palaeontologists (PalAss Newsletter).
Walton A. Green et al. (2011): Does extinction wield an axe or pruning shears? How interactions between phylogeny and ecology affect patterns of extinction. PDF file, Paleobiology, 37: 72-91.
Kent E. Holsinger, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT: Reproductive systems and evolution in vascular plants (PDF file).
! W.S. Judd, C.S. Campbell, E.A. Kellogg, and P.F. Stevens: A Phylogenetic Approach, Chapter 2: Plant Systematics. PDF file, 2nd Edition, 2002. Sinauer Associates, Inc.
Keith Karoly, Biology Department, Reed College, Portland, OR: Vascular Plant Diversity. An internet guide. Go to: Introduction to Plant Taxonomy.
M. Koopman and E. Hoffmann, Department of Botany, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI: Temporal Sequences. Powerpoint presentation.
! Diana Lipscomb (1998), Department of Biological Sciences, George Washington University, Washington D.C.: Basics of Cladistic Analysis (PDF file). This tutorial briefly reviews basic cladistic methods and the various options of character analysis and dealing with multiple trees. Each of these topics has worked examples.
Jonathan B. Losos and D. Luke Mahler (2010): Chapter 15, Adaptive radiation: the interaction of ecological opportunity, adaptation, and speciation. PDF file.
! Kevin C. Nixon, L.H. Bailey Hortorium, Cornell University Ithaca, NY: Paleobotany in cladistics and cladistics in paleobotany: enlightenment and uncertainty. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, Volume 90, Issues 3-4, February 1996, Pages 361-373.
! Norman MacLeod, Natural History Museum, London: PalaeoMath. Aspects of quantitative analysis in paleontological contexts. Each essay (from the Palaeontological Association Newsletter since 2004) is written for the novice data analyst, especially those who always wanted to gain knowledge of this subject, but never had the opportunity to do so and haven´t managed to make much progress through self-education. Including some MS Excel spreadsheets providing examples and data.
Department of Geoscience, University of Wisconsin, Madison: Paleontological Experiences for Science Teachers (funded by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute). Hands-on training in vertebrate paleontology, using fieldwork and laboratory work. Go to: Cladistics and diagrams.
Robert Nordsieck, Vienna, Austria: The Living World of Molluscs, Begriffe aus der Kladistik (in German).
Peter Ommundsen, Selkirk College, Canada: Pronunciation of Biological Latin. Including taxonomic names of plants and animals. See also here (PDF file).
Jeffrey D. Palmer et al. (2004): The plant tree of life: an overview and some points of view. PDF file, American Journal of Botany, 91: 1437-1445. See also here.
Norman I. Platnick, Division of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, New York NY: From Cladograms to Classifications: The Road to DePhylocode (PDF file).
! RationalWiki (offering often criticism and satirical articles, a rival website to Conservapedia): Cladistics.
John Rushin, Missouri Western State University:
History of Plant Taxonomy.
Plant
Taxonomy (Systematics).
Powerpoint presentations.
ScaleNet, Background Information: Glossary. Glossary of terms pertaining to nomenclature.
Mark E. Siddall, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY: Phylogenetics: just methods. Various methods in systematics.
! Society of Australian Systematic Biologists (SASB): Introductory Glossary of Cladistic Terms.
! P.F. Stevens and Hilary Davis, University of Missouri, St Louis, and Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis: Angiosperm Phylogeny Website. Descriptive characterization of all angiosperm orders and families, including images, phylogenetic trees, the description of characters used complete family and order synonymies, a link directory and a bibliography.
! Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
Systematics,
Taxonomy,
Cladistics,
Phylogenetics,
Botanical
nomenclature,
Scientific
classification.
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E.O. Wiley, D. Siegel-Causey, D.R. Brooks and V.A. Funk (1991):
The
Compleat Cladist: A Primer of Phylogenetic Procedures.
PDF file, University of Kansas Museum Of Natural History Special Publication 19.
See also
here.
Steven J. Wolf, Department of Biological Sciences, California State University, Stanislaus:
Flowering Plants
Lecture notes about plant taxonomy and systematics,
history of plant taxonomy, identification keys used to identify plants,
plant nomenclature, etc.
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