The Evolution of the Laterophysic Connection

 

This study was the basis for W. Leo Smith’s Master’s thesis in the Webb Lab and has been published (Smith, Webb and Blum, 2003)

 

 

 

Strict consensus of the four most parsimonious trees resulting from the analysis of chaetodontid generic and subgeneric relationships (tree length¼92 steps, CI¼0.58, RI¼0.85). Synapomorphies common to all four most parsimonious trees are listed before the node.  Unreversed synapomorphies are depicted as black circles and non-unique synapomorphies are depicted as open circles.  Additionally, autapomorphies in terminal taxa that were excluded from the analysis are shown as optimized on the cladogram. Character numbers (above each circle) represent the character numbers, with character states below the circle. Bremer supports are listed above the branches and parsimony jackknife supports >50% are listed below the branches (from Smith et al., 2003).

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