Toward synthesizing our knowledge of morphology: Using ontologies and machine reasoning to extract presence/absence evolutionary phenotypes across studies

Systematic Biology

Volumn 64, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 936-952

  Dececchi, T Alexander ^a   Balhoff, James P ^b,c   Lapp, Hilmar ^b,d   Mabee, Paula M ^a  

^a University of South Dakota   (United States)

^b NATIONAL EVOLUTIONARY SYNTHESIS CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

character conflict; evolutionary mapping; inference; missing data; morphological character; ontology; phenotype; supermatrix

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIA; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL ONTOLOGY; BIOLOGY; CLASSIFICATION; EVOLUTION; PHENOTYPE; PROCEDURES; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

AMPHIBIANS; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BIOLOGICAL ONTOLOGIES; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; PHENOTYPE;

EID: 84939454097     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: 1076836X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syv031     Document Type: Article

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