We evaluated the potential effects of homoplasy, ancestral polymorphism, and hybridization as obstacles to resolving phylogenetic relationships within Nomonyx-Oxyura stiff-tailed ducks (Oxyurinae; ...

With the genetics of so many organisms that have different traits yet to study, and with the techniques for gathering full sets of genetic information from organisms rapidly evolving, the "forest" of ...

Homoplasy is a fascinating and unusual occurrence in evolution. It is the independent acquisition of the same trait in unrelated lineages. To understand whether multiple organisms share the same trait ...

A review looks at the status of chloroplast simple sequence repeats or microsatellites in plant genetics, exploring their risks, benefits, and use in future studies. While many research labs are ...

Evans, T. M. and Faden, Robert B. 1998. "Homoplasy in the Commelinaceae: a comparison of different classes of morphological characters." In Monocots II. Second International Conference on the ...

In March I wrote about two studies that raised the tantalizing possibility that the tree of life, which till now has appeared to have three main branches, turns out to have a fourth. Some of the ...

Evans, T. M., Faden, Robert B., and Sytsma, Kenneth J. 2000. "Homoplasy in the Commelinaceae: a comparison of different classes of morphological characters." In ...