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Preliminary phylogenetic analysis of the bivalve family Galeommatidae

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Date Issued:
1992
Title: Preliminary phylogenetic analysis of the bivalve family Galeommatidae.
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Name(s): Bieler, R.
Mikkelsen, Paula M.
Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Article
Date Issued: 1992
Publisher: American Malacological Society
Physical Form: pdf
Extent: 9 p.
Language(s): English
Identifier: FA00007218 (IID)
Note(s): A preliminary phylogenetic analysis of species assigned to the ill-defined family Galeommatidae, plus selected others, was attempted in an effort to clarify the relative value of various systematic characters. Aspects of dealing with large numbers of equally parsimonious trees in cladistic analyses and intrinsic problems of analyses based on unordered multistate characters are addressed briefly. The analysis (Hennig86, implicit enumeration) of 18 characters with 46 character states for 20 species yielded 164 equally parsimonious trees (length 52, ci 53, ri 72), displaying five distinctly different branching patterns.Separate consensus trees were produced for the five groups. Of the five topologies, one is considered most likely in an evolutionary context, and is discussed in detail.
Florida Atlantic University. Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute contribution 878
This manuscript is an author version with the final publication available and may be cited as: Bieler, R., & Mikkelsen, P. M. (1992). Preliminary phylogenetic analysis of the bivalve family Galeommatidae. American Malacological Bulletin, 9(2), 157-164.
Subject(s): Bivalves
Phylogeny
Phylogenetics
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Host Institution: FAU