List of works by Ward C. Wheeler

'Pluralism' and the aims of phylogenetic research

scientific article published on January 2002

A conserved genetic mechanism specifies deutocerebral appendage identity in insects and arachnids

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A molecular perspective on the phylogeny of the Hyla pulchella species group (Anura, Hylidae).

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A multilocus phylogeny of Podoctidae (Arachnida, Opiliones, Laniatores) and parametric shape analysis reveal the disutility of subfamilial nomenclature in armored harvestman systematics

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A tale of two bellies: systematics of the oval frogs (Anura: Microhylidae: Elachistocleis Parker, 1927)

scientific article published on 24 August 2022

Alignment-ambiguous nucleotide sites and the exclusion of systematic data

scientific article published on June 1993

Analysis and visualization of H7 influenza using genomic, evolutionary and geographic information in a modular web service

scientific article published on 21 May 2012

Arthropod phylogeny based on eight molecular loci and morphology

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Assessing the root of bilaterian animals with scalable phylogenomic methods

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Broad phylogenomic sampling improves resolution of the animal tree of life

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Chromosomal character optimization

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Comparative and phylogenetic analysis of developmental sequences

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Cross-bracing uncalibrated nodes in molecular dating improves congruence of fossil and molecular age estimates

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DNA multiple sequence alignments.

scientific article published on January 2002

DNA sequences from a fossil termite in Oligo-Miocene amber and their phylogenetic implications

scientific article published in September 1992

Descriptions of two new, cryptic species of Metasiro (Arachnida: Opiliones: Cyphophthalmi: Neogoveidae) from South Carolina, USA, including a discussion of mitochondrial mutation rates

scientific article (publication date: 9 June 2014)

Direct Optimization, Sensitivity Analysis, and the Evolution of the Hymenopteran Superfamilies ⬇️

scientific article published in 2013

Efficiency of parallel direct optimization

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Efficient implied alignment

scientific article published on 09 July 2020

Elongation factor-1α, a putative single-copy nuclear gene, has divergent sets of paralogs in an arachnid

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Evidence of duplicated Hox genes in the most recent common ancestor of extant scorpions

scientific article published in November 2015

Evolution in the Genus Rhinella: A Total Evidence Phylogenetic Analysis of Neotropical True Toads (Anura: Bufonidae)

scientific article published in 2021

Evolution of the hymenopteran megaradiation

scientific article published on 22 April 2011

Exactly computing the parsimony scores on phylogenetic networks using dynamic programming

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Expression and function of spineless orthologs correlate with distal deutocerebral appendage morphology across Arthropoda

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First global molecular phylogeny and biogeographical analysis of two arachnid orders (Schizomida and Uropygi) supports a tropical Pangean origin and mid-Cretaceous diversification

scholarly article by Ronald M. Clouse et al published 20 August 2017 in Journal of Biogeography

Forked Tongues Revisited: Molecular Apomorphies Support Morphological Hypotheses of Squamate Evolution

scientific article published in September 2015

Genomic analysis and geographic visualization of the spread of avian influenza (H5N1).

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Historical linguistics as a sequence optimization problem: the evolution and biogeography of Uto-Aztecan languages

scholarly article by Ward C. Wheeler & Peter M. Whiteley published 13 May 2014 in Cladistics

Hox gene duplications correlate with posterior heteronomy in scorpions

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Implied alignment: a synapomorphy-based multiple-sequence alignment method and its use in cladogram search

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Insect homeotic transformation

scientific article published in Nature

Into the deep: a phylogenetic approach to the bivalve subclass Protobranchia

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Is The Amphibian Tree of Life really fatally flawed?

scientific article published in 2008

Iterative pass optimization of sequence data

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Linking of digital images to phylogenetic data matrices using a morphological ontology

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Local search for the generalized tree alignment problem

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Maximum Parsimony on Phylogenetic networks

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Mitochondrial Intergenic Spacer in Fairy Basslets (Serranidae: Anthiinae) and the Simultaneous Analysis of Nucleotide and Rearrangement Data ⬇️

scientific article published in 2009

Molecular phylogeny of Indo-Pacific carpenter ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae,Camponotus) reveals waves of dispersal and colonization from diverse source areas

scientific article published on 7 November 2014

Multiple sequence alignment in phylogenetic analysis

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Myrmecicultoridae, a New Family of Myrmecophilic Spiders from the Chihuahuan Desert (Araneae: Entelegynae) ⬇️

scientific article published in 2019

Nomenclatural stability does not justify recognition of paraphyletic taxa: A response to Scherz et al. (2016).

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On bivalve phylogeny: a high-level analysis of the Bivalvia (Mollusca) based on combined morphology and DNA sequence data

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On gaps

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On the Monophyly and Relationships of Several Genera of Hylini (Anura: Hylidae: Hylinae), with Comments on Recent Taxonomic Changes in Hylids

Paired sequence difference in ribosomal RNAs: evolutionary and phylogenetic implications ⬇️

scientific article published on January 1, 1988

Pairwise alignment with rearrangements.

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Phylogenetic Systematics of Dart-Poison Frogs and Their Relatives (Amphibia: Athesphatanura: Dendrobatoidae) ⬇️

scholarly article by Taran Grant et al published 15 August 2006 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History

Phylogenetic analysis of the endemic New Caledonian cockroachLauraesilpha. Testing competing hypotheses of diversification

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Phylogenetic network analysis as a parsimony optimization problem

scientific article published on 17 September 2015

Phylogenetic relationships among superfamilies of Hymenoptera

scientific article (publication date: 21 July 2011)

Phylogenetic relationships of a Patagonian frog radiation, theAlsodes + Eupsophusclade (Anura: Alsodidae), with comments on the supposed paraphyly ofEupsophus

scholarly article by Boris L. Blotto et al published 17 August 2012 in Cladistics

Phylogenetic relationships of family groups in Pentatomoidea based on morphology and DNA sequences (Insecta: Heteroptera)

scholarly article by Jocelia Grazia et al published December 2008 in Cladistics

Phylogenetic relationships of the Boana pulchella Group (Anura: Hylidae)

scientific article published on 12 October 2020

Phylogenetic relationships within the Cimicomorpha (Hemiptera: Heteroptera): a total-evidence analysis

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Phylogenomic interrogation of arachnida reveals systemic conflicts in phylogenetic signal

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Phylogenomic resolution of sea spider diversification through integration of multiple data classes

scientific article published on 11 September 2020

Phylogeny and systematic position of Opiliones: a combined analysis of chelicerate relationships using morphological and molecular data

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Phylogeny of Branchiopoda (Crustacea) based on a combined analysis of morphological data and six molecular loci

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Phylogeny of Henicopidae (Chilopoda: Lithobiomorpha): a combined analysis of morphology and five molecular loci

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Phylogeny of Map Tree Frogs, Boana semilineata Species Group, with a New Amazonian Species (Anura: Hylidae)

article by Pedro L.V. Peloso et al published 20 July 2018 in South American Journal of Herpetology

Phylogeny of the sea spiders (Arthropoda, Pycnogonida) based on direct optimization of six loci and morphology

scholarly article by Claudia P. Arango & Ward C. Wheeler published June 2007 in Cladistics

Phylogeny, Taxonomic Revision, and Character Evolution of the GeneraChiasmocleisandSyncope(Anura, Microhylidae) in Amazonia, with Descriptions of Three New Species ⬇️

scientific article published on 24 March 2014

Phylogeography of the harvestman genus Metasiro (Arthropoda, Arachnida, Opiliones) reveals a potential solution to the Pangean paradox

scholarly article by Ronald M. Clouse et al published 7 September 2015 in Organisms Diversity and Evolution

Polyphyly of the mail-cheeked fishes (Teleostei: Scorpaeniformes): evidence from mitochondrial and nuclear sequence data

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Poor taxon sampling, poor character sampling, and non-repeatable analyses of a contrived dataset do not provide a more credible estimate of insect phylogeny: a reply to Kjer

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Preliminary phylogenetic analysis of the Andean clade and the placement of new Colombian blueberries (Ericaceae, Vaccinieae)

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Revising the Bantu tree

scientific article published in 2018

SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF THE FROG FAMILY HYLIDAE, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO HYLINAE: PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS AND TAXONOMIC REVISION ⬇️

scientific article published in 2005

Scorpion higher phylogeny and classification, taxonomic anarchy, and standards for peer review in online publishing ⬇️

scientific article published in 2005

Search-based optimization

scientific article published in August 2003

Statistical Modeling of Distribution Patterns: A Markov Random Field Implementation and Its Application on Areas of Endemism

scientific article published on 01 January 2020

Subdivision of arthropod cap-n-collar expression domains is restricted to Mandibulata

scientific article published on 09 January 2014

Systematics and biogeography of the family Scorpionidae (Chelicerata : Scorpiones), with a discussion on phylogenetic methods

scholarly article by Lorenzo Prendini et al published 2003 in Invertebrate Systematics

Systematics of spiny-backed treefrogs (Hylidae:Osteocephalus): an Amazonian puzzle

scientific article (publication date: 16 May 2013)

Taxon cycle predictions supported by model-based inference in Indo-Pacific trap-jaw ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Odontomachus)

scientific article published on 22 September 2018

Taxonomic Impediment or Impediment to Taxonomy? A Commentary on Systematics and the Cybertaxonomic-Automation Paradigm

The Amphibian Tree of Life ⬇️

scientific article (publication date: March 2006)

The Phylogeny of the Extant Hexapod Orders

scholarly article by Ward C. Wheeler et al published June 2001 in Cladistics

The Strepsiptera problem: phylogeny of the holometabolous insect orders inferred from 18S and 28S ribosomal DNA sequences and morphology

scientific article (publication date: March 1997)

The Stresiptera Problem: Phylogeny of the Holometabolous Insect Orders Inferred from 18S and 28S Ribosomal DNA Sequences and Morphology

scholarly article by Michael F. Whiting et al published March 1997 in Systematic Biology

The Supramap project: linking pathogen genomes with geography to fight emergent infectious diseases

scientific article published on 04 January 2011

The case for sensitivity: a response to Grant and Kluge

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The evolutionary transition from subsocial to eusocial behaviour in Dictyoptera: phylogenetic evidence for modification of the "shift-in-dependent-care" hypothesis with a new subsocial cockroach

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The impact of anchored phylogenomics and taxon sampling on phylogenetic inference in narrow-mouthed frogs (Anura, Microhylidae)

scientific article (publication date: 19 March 2015)

The phylogenetic relationships of the charismatic poster frogs, Phyllomedusinae (Anura, Hylidae)

scientific article published in 2009

The spider tree of life: phylogeny of Araneae based on target-gene analyses from an extensive taxon sampling

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The tree alignment problem

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Theory and practice of parallel direct optimization.

scientific article published on January 2002

There is no evidence that Podoctidae carry eggs of their own species: Reply to Machado and Wolff (2017).

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Topology-Bayes versus Clade-Bayes in phylogenetic analysis

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Towards improving searches for optimal phylogenies

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Triploblastic relationships with emphasis on the acoelomates and the position of Gnathostomulida, Cycliophora, Plathelminthes, and Chaetognatha: a combined approach of 18S rDNA sequences and morphology

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Venom evolution widespread in fishes: a phylogenetic road map for the bioprospecting of piscine venoms

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