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	Current Issue
	2008; Vol.46 No.3
	Published: 2008-5-18
	真核生物系统发育和多样性。见正文274–286页BALDAUF的文章。 A consensus phylogeny of the major groups of eukaryotes. See BALDAUF, pp. 274–286 in this issue.

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	RESEARCH ARTICLES


	237	De-Yuan Hong, Zhi-Duan Chen, Yin-Long Qiu and Michael J. Donoghue
		Tracing Patterns of Evolution through the Tree of Life: Introduction
		One and half centuries ago, Charles Darwin (1859) argued that all living species shared common ancestors in the past, and Ernst Haeckel (1886) and other biologists in the late 1800's attempted to trace patterns of decent among all extant and extinct forms...
		2008 Vol. 46 (3): 237-238 [Abstract ] ( 178 ) [HTML 0KB] [PDF 118KB ]( 299 )


	239	Tracy A. HEATH, Shannon M. HEDTKE and David M. HILLIS
		Taxon sampling and the accuracy of phylogenetic analyses
		Appropriate and extensive taxon sampling is one of the most important determinants of accurate phylogenetic estimation. In addition, accuracy of inferences about evolutionary processes obtained from phylogenetic analyses is improved significantly by thoro...
		2008 Vol. 46 (3): 239-257 [Abstract ] ( 251 ) [HTML 0KB] [PDF 352KB ]( 237 )


	258	Bai-Lin HAO and Lei GAO
		Prokaryotic branch of the Tree of Life: A composition vector approach
		The Composition Vector Tree (CVTree) is a parameter-free and alignment-free method to infer pro-karyotic phylogeny from their complete genomes. It is distinct from the traditional 16S rRNA analysis in both the input data and the methodology. The prokar...
		2008 Vol. 46 (3): 258-262 [Abstract ] ( 198 ) [HTML 0KB] [PDF 200KB ]( 202 )


	263	Sandra L. BALDAUF
		An overview of the phylogeny and diversity of eukaryotes
		Our understanding of eukaryote biology is dominated by the study of land plants, animals and fungi. However, these are only three isolated fragments of the full diversity of extant eukaryotes. Th...
		2008 Vol. 46 (3): 263-273 [Abstract ] ( 125 ) [HTML 0KB] [PDF 888KB ]( 192 )


	274	Henner BRINKMANN and Herve PHILIPPE
		Animal phylogeny and large-scale sequencing: progress and pitfalls
		Phylogenomics, the inference of phylogen...
		2008 Vol. 46 (3): 274-286 [Abstract ] ( 136 ) [HTML 0KB] [PDF 303KB ]( 146 )


	287	Yin-Long QIU
		Phylogeny and evolution of charophytic algae and land plants
		Charophytic algae and land plants together make up a monophyletic group, streptophytes, which represents one of the main lineages of multicellular eukaryotes and has contributed greatly to change of the environment on earth in the Phanerozoic Eon. Signifi...
		2008 Vol. 46 (3): 287-306 [Abstract ] ( 136 ) [HTML 0KB] [PDF 320KB ]( 181 )

RESEARCH ARTICLES


	307	John J. WIENS and Daniel S. MOEN
		Missing data and the accuracy of Bayesian phylogenetics
		The effect of missing data on phylogenetic methods is a potentially important issue in our attempts to reconstruct the Tree of Life. If missing data are truly problematic, then it may be unwise to include species in an analysis that lack data for some cha...
		2008 Vol. 46 (3): 307-314 [Abstract ] ( 131 ) [HTML 0KB] [PDF 235KB ]( 163 )


	315	Xing GAO, Yu-Ping ZHU, Bao-Cheng WU, Ya-Mei ZHAO, Jian-Qun CHEN and Yue-Yu HANG
		Phylogeny of Dioscorea sect. Stenophora based on chloroplast matK, rbcL and trnL-F sequences
		Seventeen species, one subspecies and one variety of Dioscorea sect. Stenophora Uline were investigated for their phylogenetic relationships based on a sequence analysis of chloroplast matK and rbcL genes and trnL-F intergenic spacer by maximum parsimony ...
		2008 Vol. 46 (3): 315-321 [Abstract ] ( 166 ) [HTML 0KB] [PDF 251KB ]( 164 )


	322	Jun WEN, Scott T. BERGGREN, Chung-Hee LEE, Stefanie ICKERT-BOND, Ting-Shuang YI, Ki-Oug YOO, Lei XIE, Joey SHAW and Dan POTTER
		Phylogenetic inferences in Prunus (Rosaceae) using chloroplast ndhF and nuclear ribosomal ITS sequences
		Sequences of the chloroplast ndhF gene and the nuclear ribosomal ITS regions are employed to reconstruct the phylogeny of Prunus (Rosaceae), and evaluate the classification schemes of this genus. The two data sets are congruent in that the genera Prunu...
		2008 Vol. 46 (3): 322-332 [Abstract ] ( 191 ) [HTML 0KB] [PDF 378KB ]( 179 )


	333	Jianhua LI
		Sequences of low-copy nuclear gene support the monophyly of Ostrya and paraphyly of Carpinus (Betulaceae)
		Coryloideae consists of four genera: Corylus, Ostryopsis, Carpinus, and Ostrya. While both molecular and non-molecular data support the close relationship of Carpinus and Ostrya, the monophyly of the two genera has remained controversial. In this study, s...
		2008 Vol. 46 (3): 333-340 [Abstract ] ( 152 ) [HTML 0KB] [PDF 427KB ]( 160 )


	341	Jianhua LI
		Phylogeny of Catalpa (Bignoniaceae) inferred from sequences of chloroplast ndhF and nuclear ribosomal DNA
		Phylogenetics of Chilopsis and Catalpa (Bignoniaceae) was elucidated based on sequences of chloroplast ndhF and the nrDNA ITS region. In Bignoniaceae, Chilopsis and Catalpa are most closely related as sister genera. Our data supported section Macrocatalpa...
		2008 Vol. 46 (3): 341-348 [Abstract ] ( 231 ) [HTML 0KB] [PDF 333KB ]( 215 )


	349	Qiu-Yun Jenny XIANG and David T. THOMAS
		Tracking character evolution and biogeographic history through time in Cornaceae - Does choice of methods matter?
		This study compares results on reconstructing the ancestral state of characters and ancestral areas of distribution in Cornaceae to gain insights into the impact of using different analytical methods. Ancestral character state reconstructions were comp...
		2008 Vol. 46 (3): 349-374 [Abstract ] ( 162 ) [HTML 0KB] [PDF 7286KB ]( 169 )


	375	Akiko SOEJIMA, Jun WEN, Mario ZAPATA and Michael O. DILLON
		Phylogeny and putative hybridization in the subtribe Paranepheliinae (Liabeae, Asteraceae), implications for classification, biogeography,and Andean orogeny
		The nuclear ribosomal ITS region and the chloroplast trnL-trnF (trnLF) intergenic region were sequenced for 45 accessions of Paranephelius and six accessions of Pseudonoseris, the two genera of the subtribe Paranepheliinae (Liabeae, Asteraceae) distrib...
		2008 Vol. 46 (3): 375-390 [Abstract ] ( 426 ) [HTML 0KB] [PDF 6946KB ]( 208 )


	391	Suo QIU, Ren-Chao ZHOU, Yun-Qin LI, Sonjai HAVANOND, Chanop JAENGJAI and Su-Hua SHI
		Molecular evidence for natural hybridization between Sonneratia alba and S. griffithii
		Interspecific hybridization has been frequently observed in the mangrove genus Sonneratia. However, no natural hybridization has been reported between Sonneratia alba and S. griffithii to date, despite their overlapping distribution in the coast of Andama...
		2008 Vol. 46 (3): 391-395 [Abstract ] ( 229 ) [HTML 0KB] [PDF 215KB ]( 238 )


	396	Claire M. LORTS, Trevor BRIGGEMAN and Tao SANG
		Evolution of fruit types and seed dispersal:A phylogenetic and ecological snapshot
		Success of flowering plants is greatly dependent on effective seed dispersal. Specific fruit types aid different mechanisms of seed dispersal. However, little is known about what evolutionary forces have driven the diversification of fruit types and wheth...
		2008 Vol. 46 (3): 396-404 [Abstract ] ( 212 ) [HTML 0KB] [PDF 247KB ]( 187 )


	405	Alexandra SURCEL, Xiaofan ZHOU, Li QUAN and Hong MA
		Long-term maintenance of stable copy number in the eukaryotic SMC family: origin of a vertebrate meiotic SMC1 and fate of recent segmental duplicates
		Members of the Structural Maintenance of Chromosome (SMC) family have long been of interest to molecular and evolutionary biologists for their role in chromosome structural dynamics, particularly sister chromatid cohesion, condensation, and DNA repair. SM...
		2008 Vol. 46 (3): 405-423 [Abstract ] ( 155 ) [HTML 0KB] [PDF 1579KB ]( 139 )


	424	Richard L. MAYDEN, Kevin L. TANG, Robert M. WOOD, Wei-Jen CHEN, Mary K. AGNEW, Kevin W. CONWAY, Lei YANG, Andrew M. SIMONS, Henry L. BART, Phillip M.HARRIS, Junbing LI, Xuzhen WANG, Kenji SAITOH, Shunping HE, Huanzhang LIU, Yiyu CHEN, Mutsumi NISHIDA and Masaki MIYA
		Inferring the Tree of Life of the order Cypriniformes, the earth's most diverse clade of freshwater fishes: Implications of varied taxon and character sampling
		The phylogenetic relationships of species are fundamental to any biological investigation, including all evolutionary studies. Accurate inferences of sister group relationships provide the researcher with an historical framework within which the attrib...
		2008 Vol. 46 (3): 424-438 [Abstract ] ( 161 ) [HTML 0KB] [PDF 455KB ]( 128 )



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