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| Marjanovic, D.; Laurin, M.. |
| The origin of frogs, salamanders and caecilians is controversial. McGowan published an original hypothesis on lissamphibian origins in 2002 (McGowan, 2002, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 135: 1-32), stating that Gymnophiona was nested inside the 'microsaurian' lepospondyls, this clade was the sister-group of a caudate-salientian-albanerpetontid clade, and both were nested inside the dissorophoid temnospondyls. We have investigated McGowan's data matrix and isagree with the scoring of 35% of the cells. All taxa and all but two characters are affected. In some cases, we have a different interpretation about correspondence between morphology and character states, or we delimit states differently (or use information that was unknown in 2002). In... |
| Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor |
Palavras-chave: Albanerpetontidae; Brachydectes; Coding; Continuous characters; Data matrix; Gerobatrachus; Gymnophioniformes; Gymnophionomorpha; Lissamphibia; Lysorophia; Morphology; Ontogeny; Paleontology; Phylogeny; Scoring; Stepmatrix gap-weighting; 42.82. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/289109 |
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| Laurin, M.. |
| Absolute (Linnaean) ranks are essential to rank-based nomenclature (RN), which has been used by the vast majority of systematists for the last 150 years. They are widely recognized as being subjective among taxonomists, but not necessarily in other fields. For this reason, phylogenetic nomenclature (PN) and other alternative nomenclatural systems have been developed. However, reluctance to accept alternative nomenclatural systems and continued use of higher taxa of a given Linnaean category in comparative analyses presumably reflect a lack of appreciation of the deleterious effects of the subjective nature of Linnaean categories in other biological fields, such as conservation and evolutionary biology. To make that point clearer, evolutionary models under... |
| Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor |
Palavras-chave: Biological nomenclature; Codes of nomenclature; Comparative biology; Evolution; PhyloCode; Phylogenetic; Nomenclature; 42.21. |
| Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/361032 |
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| Rineau, V.; Grand, A.; Zaragüeta, R.; Laurin, M.. |
| Phenotypic characters are essential to study the evolution of extant and extinct life forms and to reconstruct the tree of life. Inside the cladistics theory, parsimony is used by a large majority of systematists working on phenotypic characters, whereas 3ta is much less widespread but has triggered important debates. Many important differences in the interpretation of the cladistic theory exist between these methods, e.g. meaning and treatment of reversals, character representation as ‘data-matrices’ in parsimony (ordered and unordered), and as rooted trees (hierarchies) in 3ta. Although 3ta has received severe criticism, mostly focused in the use of software intended to be used in parsimony, only a few empirical studies have compared these methods so... |
| Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor |
Palavras-chave: Branch length; Evolutionary model; Hierarchy; Ordered characters; Outgroup polarization; Parsimony; Reversals; Three-taxon analysis; Three-taxon statements; Unordered characters; 42.10. |
| Ano: 2015 |
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/560429 |
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| Ascarrunz, E.; Rage , J.-C.; Legreneur, P.; Laurin, M.. |
| Triadobatrachus massinoti is a batrachian known from a single fossil from the Early Triassic of Madagascar that presents a combination of apomorphic salientian and plesiomorphic batrachian characters. Herein we offer a revised description of the specimen based on X-ray micro-tomography data. We report previously unknown caudal vertebrae, possible mentomeckelians, and hidden parts of other structures. We also confirm the presence of a ventrolateral ledge on the opisthotic, and we rectify some previous interpretations. There are no cervical ribs and the jaw may have had an angular. The presacral region is composed of 15 vertebrae with a unique atlas-axis complex instead of 14 vertebrae with a bipartite atlas. The configuration of the pelvic girdle is not... |
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Palavras-chave: Anura; Caudopelvic apparatus; CT scan; Salientia; Triassic; Trunk evolution; 42.82. |
| Ano: 2016 |
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/610011 |
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