Submissions tagged with phylogeny
(8 documents)
Natural Biomolecules from Marine Snail Telescopium telescopium and structure of its sperm: A Phylogenetic Study
Abstract:Biochemical analysis of the cytosol fraction isolated from the ovotestis / spermatheca glands of marine mollusc Telescopium telescopium and it’s sperm microtubular structure revealed tha…
Received 30 June 2009 07:06 UTC; Posted 01 July 2009
Posted to: Evolutionary Biology
The Gene Ontology’s Reference Genome Project: A Unified Framework for Functional Annotation across Species
Complete functional annotation of genomes is a powerful tool for researchers; however, such annotation is a time-consuming task limited by the availability of experimental data. The function of gen…
Received 22 April 2009 22:47 UTC; Posted 23 April 2009
Posted to: Genetics & Genomics, Bioinformatics
Future Predictions of Cyclamen Distribution in the Mediterranean Region
Cyclamen (Myrsinaceae) occupy the Mediterranean region, with highest diversity in Greece and Turkey, with a few species endemic to islands. Cyclamen species have a phenological preference for d…
Received 14 April 2009 23:01 UTC; Posted 15 April 2009
Posted to: Ecology, Plant Biology, Evolutionary Biology
Visualising a scientific article
This paper describes my entry in the Elsevier Grand Challenge “Knowledge Enhancement in the Life Sciences” contest. The entry takes a collection of fulltext issues of _Molecular Phylogenetics and …
Received 28 November 2008 16:15 UTC; Posted 28 November 2008
Posted to: Ecology, Bioinformatics
Towards realising Darwin’s dream: setting the trees free
The fact that all living organisms are related by common descent is one of the central principles of modern biology. Since the early 1990’s the amount of data available to evolutionary biologists …
Received 21 August 2008 20:29 UTC; Posted 22 August 2008
Posted to: Ecology, Bioinformatics
Speciation of chilean Rhinocryptidae (Avian) based on their behaviour
The current classification of the chilean representatives of the passerine family Rhinocryptidae includes eight species. Three of them contain subspecies that don’t exhibit clear differences. Moreo…
Received 18 March 2008 14:51 UTC; Posted 19 March 2008
Posted to: Ecology, Evolutionary Biology
Towards a Taxonomically Intelligent Phylogenetic Database
This note outlines some of the key intellectual obstacles that stand in the way of creating a usable phylogenetic database. These challenges include the need to accommodate multiple taxonomic names…
Received 18 September 2007 09:01 UTC; Posted 18 September 2007
Posted to: Bioinformatics, Evolutionary Biology
Treemap Versus BPA (Again): A Response to Dowling
TreeMap is a computer program for analysing host-parasite cospeciation. We respond to Dowling’s (Cladistics, 18: 416-435) recent comparison of TreeMap and Brooks Parsimony Analysis (BPA) by showing…
Received 18 September 2007 09:09 UTC; Posted 18 September 2007
Posted to: Bioinformatics, Evolutionary Biology
