All Stories

  1. Many paths to parsimony
  2. Hierarchies, classifications, cladograms and phylogeny
  3. Intersubjective Corroboration
  4. What is discoverable and what is interpreted
  5. A slippery reality: the epistemological shifting sands of tokogeny, phylogeny, lineages and species delimitation
  6. Dead on arrival: a postmortem assessment of “phylogenetic nomenclature”, 20+ years on
  7. Phylobabble
  8. No background in biology is assumed
  9. A Quiet Revolutionary
  10. Oh, what a tangled web we weave
  11. Blasts from the past
  12. Background knowledge: the assumptions of pattern cladistics
  13. The Tree Of Life: metaphysics vs. metaphor
  14. Alternative facts: a reconsideration of putatively natural interspecific hybrid specimens in the genus Heliconius (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae)
  15. “Maximum support” = 100% BS
  16. Paradigms and paradoxes of Heliconius butterflies
  17. Anchored phylogenomics illuminates the skipper butterfly tree of life
  18. Fifty shades of cladism
  19. Cracking the Code: Examination of Species Delimitations among Hamadryas Butterflies with DNA Barcodes Suggests Caribbean Cracker is Hamadryas februa Hübner (Nymphalidae: Biblidinae)
  20. Blood, soil and Willi Hennig
  21. Heliconius melpomene and Heliconius cydno are 100% reproductively isolated
  22. Statistical consistency and phylogenetic inference: a brief review
  23. Going rogue
  24. A parsimony-based molecular phylogeny for Heliconius
  25. “Parsimony be damned!”
  26. Tree-Thinking
  27. a new molecular phylogenetic hypothesis for higher-level relationships of skipper butterflies
  28. The South Temperate Pronophilina (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Satyrinae): a phylogenetic hypothesis, redescriptions and revisionary notes
  29. Rethinking Tree-Thinking: Cladograms, Ancestors & Evidence
  30. Emergent Properties
  31. What is a cladogram and what is not?
  32. Competing paradigms of Amazonian diversification and the Pleistocene refugium hypothesis
  33. Incompatible Ages for Clearwing Butterflies Based on Alternative Secondary Calibrations
  34. Trees and more trees
  35. Paraphylophily
  36. “Theory‐free”?
  37. Neotropical butterflies speciated in the Pleistocene
  38. Corrigenda
  39. Phylogenetic relationships of ithomiine butterflies (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Danainae) as implied by combined morphological and molecular data
  40. Transformational and taxic homology revisited
  41. A metaphysical research programme
  42. Willi Hennig at 100
  43. About nothing
  44. Communing with the Ancestors
  45. Reality check: a reply to Smith
  46. Introgression of wing pattern alleles and speciation via homoploid hybridization in Heliconius butterflies: a review of evidence from the genome
  47. A picture is worth a thousand words
  48. Homology and errors
  49. The meaning of “phenetic”
  50. Anomalous areas and awkward ages: concerns about over-reliance on model-based biogeographical and temporal inferences
  51. Repeatability and reality
  52. Alleviating the taxonomic impediment of DNA barcoding and setting a bad precedent: names for ten species of ‘Astraptes fulgerator’ (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae: Eudaminae) with DNA-based diagnoses
  53. Biological Systematics: Principles and Applications . Second Edition. By Randall T. Schuh and Andrew V. Z. Brower. Ithaca (New York): Cornell University Press (Comstock Publishing Associates). $59.95. xiii + 311 p.; ill.; author and subject indexes. I...
  54. Hybrid speciation in Heliconius butterflies? A review and critique of the evidence
  55. Most of the time, parsimony and model-based approaches give the same result
  56. Biological Systematics: Principles and Applications Biological Systematics: Principles and Applications , 2nd ed., by Randall T. Schuh and Andrew V. Z. Brower . Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2009. 311 pp. $59.95 (hardback).
  57. Phylogenetic relationships among genera of danaine butterflies (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) as implied by morphology and DNA sequences
  58. Stability, replication, pseudoreplication and support
  59. Nymphalid butterflies diversify following near demise at the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary
  60. Book review
  61. Revised classification of the family Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera: Hesperioidea) based on combined molecular and morphological data
  62. Out of the Andes: patterns of diversification in clearwing butterflies
  63. Identification of mosquito bloodmeals using mitochondrialcytochrome oxidase subunit Iandcytochrome bgene sequences
  64. Phylogenetic relationships of subfamilies and circumscription of tribes in the family Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera: Hesperioidea)
  65. Limited performance of DNA barcoding in a diverse community of tropical butterflies
  66. Do pollen feeding, pupal-mating and larval gregariousness have a single origin in Heliconius butterflies? Inferences from multilocus DNA sequence data
  67. Gene Duplication Is an Evolutionary Mechanism for Expanding Spectral Diversity in the Long-Wavelength Photopigments of Butterflies
  68. The how and why of branch support and partitioned branch support, with a new index to assess partition incongruence
  69. Higher level phylogeny of Satyrinae butterflies (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) based on DNA sequence data
  70. Problems with DNA barcodes for species delimitation: ‘Ten species’ ofAstraptes fulgeratorreassessed (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae)
  71. Phylogenetic relationships among the Ithomiini (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) inferred from one mitochondrial and two nuclear gene regions
  72. Morphology, molecules and fritillaries: approaching a stable phylogeny for Argynnini (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae)
  73. The Genus Adelpha: Its Systematics, Biology and Biogeography (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Limenitidini)
  74. Mitochondrial DNA provides an insight into the mechanisms driving diversification in the ithomiine butterfly Hyposcada anchiala (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Ithomiinae)
  75. Phylogenetic Utility of Tektin, a Novel Region for Inferring Systematic Relationships Among Lepidoptera
  76. Phylogenetic relationships and historical biogeography of tribes and genera in the subfamily Nymphalinae (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae)
  77. Phylogenetic relationships of the New World Troidini swallowtails (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae) based on COI, COII, and EF-1α genes
  78. Synergistic effects of combining morphological and molecular data in resolving the phylogeny of butterflies and skippers
  79. Geographical Populations and “Subspecies” of New World Monarch Butterflies (Nymphalidae) Share a Recent Origin and Are Not Phylogenetically Distinct
  80. Cladistics, phylogeny, evidence and explanation - a reply to Lee
  81. Abstracts of the 20th Annual Meeting of the Willi Hennig Society
  82. Cladistics, populations and species in geographical space: the case of Heliconius butterflies
  83. Molecular systematics and the origin of species: new syntheses or methodological introgressions?
  84. Molecular Evolution of the Wingless Gene and Its Implications for the Phylogenetic Placement of the Butterfly Family Riodinidae (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea)
  85. Evolution Is Not a Necessary Assumption of Cladistics
  86. Evolution Is Not a Necessary Assumption of Cladistics
  87. Delimitation of Phylogenetic Species with DNA Sequences: A Critique of Davis and Nixon's Population Aggregation Analysis
  88. Net-Wielding Anachronisms?
  89. Explaining the latitudinal gradient anomaly in ichneumonid species richness: evidence from butterflies
  90. Patterns of mitochondrial versus nuclear DNA sequence divergence among nymphalid butterflies: the utility of wingless as a source of characters for phylogenetic inference
  91. Process Partitions, Congruence, and the Independence of Characters: Inferring Relationships Among Closely Related Hawaiian Drosophila from Multiple Gene Regions
  92. Process Partitions, Congruence, and the Independence of Characters: Inferring Relationships among Closely Related Hawaiian Drosophila from Multiple Gene Regions
  93. Cladistic analysis of Heliconius butterflies and relatives (Nymphalidae: Heliconiiti): a revised phylogenetic position for Eueides based on sequences from mtDNA and a nuclear gene
  94. Phylogenetic Analysis
  95. The evolution of ecologically important characters in Heliconius butterflies (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae): a cladistic review
  96. Phylogeny of the neotropical moth tribe Josiini (Notodontidae: Dioptinae): comparing and combining evidence from DNA sequences and morphology
  97. Phylogeny of the neotropical moth tribe Josiini (Notodontidae: Dioptinae): comparing and combining evidence from DNA sequences and morphology
  98. GENE TREES, SPECIES TREES, AND SYSTEMATICS: A Cladistic Perspective
  99. Book review:
  100. THREE STEPS OF HOMOLOGY ASSESSMENT
  101. Monarch Transfer: A Real Concern?
  102. FORUM: THREE STEPS OF HOMOLOGY ASSESSMENT
  103. Combining data in phylogenic analysis
  104. A new mimetic species of Heliconius (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae), from southeastern Colombia, revealed by cladistic analysis of mitochondrial DNA sequences
  105. A new mimetic species ofHeliconius(Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae), from southeastern Colombia, revealed by cladistic analysis of mitochondrial DNA sequences
  106. Parallel Race Formation and the Evolution of Mimicry in Heliconius Butterflies: A Phylogenetic Hypothesis from Mitochondrial DNA Sequences
  107. On the Dangers of Interpopulational Transfers of Monarch Butterflies
  108. Taxonomic minimalism
  109. Rapid morphological radiation and convergence among races of the butterfly Heliconius erato inferred from patterns of mitochondrial DNA evolution.
  110. mtDNA phylogeny of Heliconius butterflies
  111. What does it mean to be a "cladist" in the 21st Century?