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American Museum of Natural History, New York: Understanding Cladistics. Brief introduction.

Lonna Beers, Library and Learning Resources Center, Montgomery College, Conroe, Texas: Guide to Internet Resources for Biological Taxonomy and Classification. An index of annotated taxonomy links to internet resources, sorted by taxonomic kingdoms.

D.E.G. Briggs, W.L. Crepet, D. Goujet, and G. Plodowski (Paleo21): Systematics - The Sine Qua Non of Paleontology.

Palaeontology Research Group, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol: Cladestrat. This data base contains results of tests to compare cladograms with stratigraphy. The data sets have been updated to include the 1000 cladograms and molecular trees assessed for fit to stratigraphy by Benton et al. (2000). Go to: Data on Plant Trees. From the review volume by Kenrick and Crane (1997).

The Museum of Paleontology (UCMP), University of California at Berkeley: Why Do Biologists Need Cladistics? and Journey into the World of Cladistics.

L. Borgen, W. Greuter, D. L. Hawksworth, D. H. Nicolson & B. Zimmer, Officers of the International Association for Plant Taxonomy (IAPT): Announcing a test and trial phase for the registration of new plant names (1998-1999). Subject to ratification by the XVI International Botanical Congress (St Louis, 1999) of a rule already included in the International code of botanical nomenclature (Art. 32.1-2 of the Tokyo Code), new names of plants and fungi will have to be registered in order to be validly published after the 1st of January 2000. To demonstrate feasibility of a registration system, IAPT undertakes a trial of registration, on a non-mandatory basis, for a two-years period starting 1 January 1998.

Lynne M. Clos, Fossil News: What is Cladistics?

Mike Crisp, Society of Australian Systematic Biologists: Introductory Glossary of Cladistic Terms.

Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, The Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, University of Edinburgh: Taxonomic Hierarchy.

Felsenstein lab, Department of Genetics, University of Washington, Seattle: Phylogeny Programs. The listed phylogeny software programs include both free and non-free ones. Index of packages arranged by methods available, computer systems on which they work, cross-referenced by method and by computer system, etc.

Vicki Funk, U.S. National Herbarium, Department of Botany, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.; & Michael Donoghue, University Herbaria, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA: Cladistic Literature. A list of cladistic references.

The International Willi Hennig Society.

David E. Joyce, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Clark University, Worcester, MA: Phylogeny and Reconstructing Phylogenetic Trees. These few pages describe the problem of reconstructing phylogenetic trees. A demo for two Java applets run on the viewer's browser.

Arnold G. Kluge, Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor: Principles of Systematics (Biology 491).

Diana Lipscomb, THE FUTURE OF CLADISTICS.

W. Maddison and D. Maddison, University of Arizona: Mesquite. A modular system for evolutionary analysis. To analyze data for evolutionary patterns, biologists are relying increasingly on specialized software. Mesquite, a Java-based software, allow many programmers to contribute building blocks to a common system with platform independence.

Eugene G. Maurakis and William Woolcott, Science Museum of Virginia, Richmond: Phylogenetic Systematics Video. The video, accompanied by an instructor´s guide, is an educational tool that can be used as an introduction to phylogenectic systematics. With costs.

Sally McBrearty, Anthropology Department, University of Connecticut: CLADISTICS TERMS.

Paul David Polly, Division of Biomedical Sciences, St Bartholomew's and the Royal London School of Medicine and Dentistry Queen Mary & Westfield College, London (and Department of Palaeontology, The Natural History Museum): REVOLUTION AND EVOLUTION IN TAXONOMY: MAMMALIAN CLASSIFICATION BEFORE AND AFTER DARWIN.

Hugh D. Wilson, Department of Biology Herbarium (TAMU), Texas A&M University (with support from the Texas A&M Center for the Study of Digital Libraries), BOTANY 201--TAXONOMY OF FLOWERING PLANTS: Lab 1 - Exercise in Basic Taxonomy: Classification, Nomenclature, and Identification.

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