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Michael F. Whiting
Researcher at Brigham Young University
Publications - 143
Citations - 12587
Michael F. Whiting is an academic researcher from Brigham Young University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Monophyly & Phylogenetic tree. The author has an hindex of 54, co-authored 143 publications receiving 11330 citations. Previous affiliations of Michael F. Whiting include American Museum of Natural History & Cornell University.
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Many species in one: DNA barcoding overestimates the number of species when nuclear mitochondrial pseudogenes are coamplified
TL;DR: It is demonstrated that the presence of COI numts makes this goal difficult to achieve when numts are prevalent and can introduce serious ambiguity into DNA barcoding, which strives for rapid and inexpensive generation of molecular species tags.
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The Strepsiptera problem: phylogeny of the holometabolous insect orders inferred from 18S and 28S ribosomal DNA sequences and morphology.
TL;DR: Phylogenetic relationships among the holometabolous insect orders were inferred from cladistic analysis of nucleotide sequences of 18S ribosomal DNA (rDNA) and 28S rDNA and morphological characters.
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Assembling the tree of life
TL;DR: This edited volume is provides an authoritative synthesis of knowledge about the history of life, by the leading workers in their fields, and should prove indispensable for evolutionary biologists, taxonomists, ecologists interested in biodiversity, and as a baseline sourcebook for organismic biologists, botanists, and microbiologists.
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Mecoptera is paraphyletic: multiple genes and phylogeny of Mecoptera and Siphonaptera
TL;DR: Phylogenetic analyses of DNA sequence data support a paraphyletic Mecoptera with two major lineages: Nannochoristidae + (Siphonaptera + Boreidae) and Meropidae + ((Choristollaidea + Apteropanorpidae) (Panorpidae + Bittacidae))).
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The Phylogeny of the Extant Hexapod Orders
TL;DR: A well-resolved and robust cladogram of ordinal relationships is produced with the topology of crustacea with representatives of each hexapod order included.