Relationships of Cetacea (Artiodactyla) Among Mammals: Increased Taxon Sampling Alters Interpretations of Key Fossils and Character Evolution

Michelle Spaulding; Maureen A. O'Leary; John Gatesy

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0007062

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Relationships of Cetacea (Artiodactyla) Among Mammals: Increased Taxon Sampling Alters Interpretations of Key Fossils and Character Evolution

Michelle Spaulding ,

* E-mail: mspaulding@amnh.org

Affiliations Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America, Division of Paleontology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, United States of America
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Maureen A. O'Leary,

Affiliation Department of Anatomical Sciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America
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John Gatesy

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America
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Relationships of Cetacea (Artiodactyla) Among Mammals: Increased Taxon Sampling Alters Interpretations of Key Fossils and Character Evolution

Michelle Spaulding,
Maureen A. O'Leary,
John Gatesy

Published: September 23, 2009
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0007062

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No character list = no repeatability

Posted by cbealey on 30 Apr 2018 at 19:22 GMT

Where’s the descriptions of characters used in the data matrix? Without it, people trying to replicate the results won’t know what the numbers in the matrix actually mean in terms of morphology.

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No character list = no repeatability

Posted by cbealey on 30 Apr 2018 at 19:22 GMT