Supertrees and the Tree of Life: Generating a metaphylogeny for a diverse invertebrate family (Insecta: Diptera:Therevidae) using constraint trees and the parsimony ratchet to overcome low taxon overlap

Invertebrate Systematics

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 171-191

  Lambkin, Christine L ^a,b   Trueman, John W H ^c   Yeates, David K ^a   Holston, Kevin C ^d,e   Webb, Donald W ^f   Hauser, Martin ^d,g   Metz, Mark A ^d,h   Hill, Hilary N ^i,j   Skevington, Jeffrey H ^k   Yang, Longlong ^i,l   Irwin, Michael E ^d,j   Wiegmann, Brian M ⁱ  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b QUEENSLAND MUSEUM   (Australia)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^e SWEDISH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Sweden)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

^g Plant Pest Diagnostics Center   (United States)

^h DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

ⁱ NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^j Hamner Institute for Health Sciences ^*  (United States)

^k CEF   (Canada)

^l Hamner Institute for Health Sciences   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENY; RELATEDNESS; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ANABARHYNCHUS; ARTHROPODA; BARYPHORA; DIPTERA; HOPLOSATHE; INSECTA; INVERTEBRATA; LITOLINGA; PANDIVIRILIA; PHYCINAE (FLIES); THEREVA; THEREVIDAE; THEREVINAE;

EID: 67651018656     PISSN: 14455226     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/IS08035     Document Type: Article

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