@book {7821, title = {Dynamic homology and phylogenetic systematics: a unified approach using POY}, year = {2006}, note = {book}, pages = {365}, publisher = {American Museum of Natural History}, organization = {American Museum of Natural History}, address = {New York}, keywords = {homology, molecular characters, phylogenetics}, author = {Wheeler, W. C. and Aagesen, Lone and Arango, Claudia P. and Faivovich, Juli{\'a}n and Grant, Taran and D{\textquoteright}Haese, Cyrille and Janies, Daniel and Smith, W. L. and Var{\'o}n, A. and Giribet, G.} } @article {7516, title = {Phylogeny and biogeography of cichlid fishes (Teleostei : Perciformes : Cichlidae)}, journal = {Cladistics}, volume = {20}, number = {6}, year = {2004}, note = {PDFTimes Cited: 3ArticleEnglishCited References Count: 89896wq}, month = {DEC}, pages = {501-517}, abstract = {Family level molecular phylogenetic analyses of cichlid fishes have generally suffered from a limited number of characters and/or poor taxonomic sampling across one or more major geographic assemblage, and therefore have not provided a robust test of early intrafamilial diversification. Herein we use both nuclear and mitochondrial nucleotide characters and direct optimization to reconstruct a phylogeny for cichlid fishes. Representatives of major cichlid lineages across all geographic assemblages are included, as well as nearly twice the number of characters as any prior family-level study. In a strict consensus of 81 equally most-parsimonious hypotheses, based on the simultaneous analysis of 2222 aligned nucleotide characters from two mitochondrial and two nuclear genes, four major subfamilial lineages are recovered with strong support. Etroplinae, endemic to Madagascar (Paretroplus) and southern Asia (Etroplus), is recovered as the sister taxon to the remainder of Cichlidae. Although the South Asian cichlids are monophyletic, the Malagasy plus South Asian lineages are not. The remaining Malagasy lineage, Ptychochrominae, is monophyletic and is recovered as the sister group to a clade comprising the African and Neotropical cichlids. The African (Pseudocrenilabrinae) and Neotropical (Cichlinae) lineages are each monophyletic in this reconstruction. The use of multiple molecular markers, from both mitochondrial and nuclear genes, results in a phylogeny that in general exhibits strong support, notably for early diversification events within Cichlidae. Results further indicate that Labroidei is not monophyletic, and that the sister group to Cichlidae may comprise a large and diverse assemblage of percomorph lineages. This hypothesis may at least partly explain why morphological studies that have attempted to place Cichlidae within Percomorpha, or that have tested cichlid monophyly using only "labroid" lineages, have met with only limited success. (c) The Willi Hennig Society 2004.}, keywords = {biogeography, direct optimization, dna, evolution, fishes, phylogeny, poy}, url = {://000226965400001}, author = {Sparks, J. S. and Smith, W. L.} } @article {7517, title = {Phylogeny and biogeography of the Malagasy and Australasian rainbowfishes (Teleostei : Melanotaenioidei): Gondwanan vicariance and evolution in freshwater}, journal = {Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution}, volume = {33}, number = {3}, year = {2004}, note = {Times Cited: 0ArticleEnglishCited References Count: 81872ks}, month = {DEC}, pages = {719-734}, abstract = {Phylogenetic relationships of the Malagasy and Australasian rainbowfishes are investigated using 4394 characters derived from five mitochondrial genes (12S, 16S, tRNA-Valine, ND5, and COI), three nuclear genes (28S, histone H3, and TMO-4c4), and 102 morphological transformations. This study represents the first phylogenetic analysis of the endemic Malagasy family Bedotiidae and includes a nearly complete taxonomic review of all nominal species, as well as numerous undescribed species. Simultaneous analysis of the molecular and morphological datasets results in two equally most parsimonious trees. Results indicate that Bedotiidae (Bedotia + Rheocles) and Bedotia are monophyletic, whereas Rheocles is paraphyletic with the inclusion of two recently described species from northeastern Madagascar, R. vatosoa, and R. derhami. Rheocles vatosoa and R. derhami are sister taxa, and this clade is recovered as the sister group to Bedotia. The remaining species of Rheocles are not sexually dimorphic and comprise a clade that is recovered as the sister group to Bedotia + (R. derhami + R. vatosoa), all of which are sexually dichromatic, and sexually dimorphic for pigmentation and fin development. Three geographically distinct clades are recovered within Bedotia, one comprising species with distributions ranging from mid- to southeastern Madagascar, another including species restricted to eastern drainages north of the Masoala Peninsula, and a third comprising taxa with distributions extending from the Masoala Peninsula south to the Ivoloina River. The Australian/New Guinean melanotaeniids are monophyletic and are recovered as the sister group to Bedotiidae. The Australasian Telmatherinidae and Pseudomugilidae comprise a clade that is recovered as the sister group to the Melanotaeniidae-Bedotiidae clade. This sister-group relationship between Malagasy bedotiids and a clade restricted to Australia-New Guinea, and the absence of a close relationship between bedotiids and African or Mascarene atheriniforms, is congruent with the break-up of Gondwana, not a scenario reliant on Cenozoic trans-oceanic dispersal. Finally, results of the phylogenetic analysis indicate that Atheriniformes is polyphyletic and further corroborate recent morphological hypotheses, which have recovered Bedotiidae in a derived position within Atherinoidei. (C) 2004 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.}, keywords = {atherinomorpha, bedotia, bedotiidae, cladistic biogeography, fishes, gondwana, madagascar, melanotaeniidae, molecular phylogeny, multiple-sequence alignment, northeastern madagascar, optimization, paleogeographic evolution, parsimony analysis, rheocles, single-origin, systematics}, url = {://000225206700015}, author = {Sparks, J. S. and Smith, W. L.} } @article {7499, title = {Mitochondrial intergenic spacer in fairy basslets (Serranidae: Anthiinae) and the simultaneous analysis of nucleotide and rearrangement data}, journal = {American Museum Novitates}, volume = {3652}, year = {2009}, note = {PDF}, pages = {1-10}, keywords = {dna rearrangement, molecular characters, mtDNA, poy}, author = {Smith, W. L. and Smith, K. R. and Wheeler, W. C.} } @article {7500, title = {Polyphyly of the mail-cheeked fishes (Teleostei : Scorpaeniformes): evidence from mitochondrial and nuclear sequence data}, journal = {Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution}, volume = {32}, number = {2}, year = {2004}, note = {PDFTimes Cited: 8ReviewEnglishCited References Count: 118838ry}, month = {AUG}, pages = {627-646}, abstract = {Mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequence data for 105 acanthomorph taxa are analyzed to address questions of scorpaeniform monophyly and relationships. The combination of 3425 aligned base pairs from the mitochondrial small subunit rDNA (12S), large subunit rDNA (16S), and tRNA-Val and the nuclear large subunit rDNA (28S), histone H3, and TMO-4c4 loci are analyzed. Representatives of all scorpaeniform suborders and 32 of 36 scorpaeniform families are included with most suborders represented by multiple species. In addition to 69 scorpaeniform taxa, 36 outgroup taxa, including representatives of most families previously conjectured to be related to the Scorpaeniformes, are analyzed due to serious concerns of scorpaeniform monophyly. The traditionally recognized scorpaeniform fishes are recovered as polyphyletic, The 13 representatives of the Atheriniformes, Blennioidei, Gasterosteoidei, Grammatidae, Notothenioidei, Percidae, Trichodontidae, and Zoarcoidei included in the analysis are all nested within the least inclusive clade that includes all traditionally recognized scorpaeniforms. The scorpaenoid lineage is widely polyphyletic, and its intrarelationships differed significantly from previous hypotheses. The cottoid lineage is paraphyletic with only the presence of the Trichodontidae, as the sister-taxon of the Cottoidei, disrupting the traditional subordinal hypothesis of relationships. (C) 2004 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.}, keywords = {direct optimization, evolution, mtDNA, nuDNA, phylogenetics, poy, taxonomy}, url = {://000222732000016}, author = {Smith, W. L. and Wheeler, W. C.} }