Is there something analogous to #ClintReptiles but for #botany? I want someone to explain me the #plant branch of the tree of life while telling how much they love it, clade by clade.

#systematics #treeOfLife #cladistics #phylogenetics

Phylogenetic tree of creatures with a fictional mutation called Hexapody. Hexapody is the condition of possessing six-limbs on an otherwise four-limbed body plan. (Insects are the exception and seem to have evolved it naturally). It's theorized that Hexapody is the result of long-term magic exposure. Many creatures with this condition have the capacity to wield magic to some extent.

Phylogenetic tree of Six-limbed creatures
#fantasy #dnd #dragon #cladistics

Metazooa Become an evolutionary detective to find the Mystery Animal!

If you have any interest in #zoology, #evolution, #cladistics & so on, this is a fun game: Metazooa (metazooa.com). You have to guess an animal & if you’re wrong you’re shown the smallest clade that includes your guess & the answer. You then guess again to home in on the answer. +

⚠️#NewPaperAlert💻
𝗨𝗜𝗧𝗢𝗧𝗢: 𝗮 𝘀𝗼𝗳𝘁𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗺𝗼𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗹𝗮𝗿 𝗱𝗶𝗮𝗴𝗻𝗼𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗱𝗲𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀
By Torres et al.

doi.org/10.1111/cla.70…

#Cladistics #MolecularTaxonomy #SpeciesDiagnosis #DNAbarcoding #UITOTO

Wait… did you say there’s a new MorphoBank?

That’s right. MorphoBank is now faster, cleaner, more scaleable, and more sustainable. Learn more on our blog phoenixbioinfo.org/presenting-t... 🧪

#biology #evolutionarybiology #phylogenetics #treeoflife #systematics #cladistics #paleontology

📢 Big news: This month MorphoBank surpassed 2,000 project publications!

It's been a long journey. Thank you all for taking it with us!

#biology #evolutionarybiology #phylogenetics #treeoflife #systematics #cladistics #paleontology #morphobank

The Taxonomy Bell Curve

The Taxonomy Bell Curve

#Taxonomy #Evolution #Birds #Reptiles #Cladistics

sciencehumor.io/biology-memes/the-taxono...

Pst…have you heard? MorphoBank is getting a new look and some exciting new functionality to go with it. Take a sneak peek on our beta site at beta.morphobank.org and let us know what you think. 🧪

#biology #evolutionarybiology #phylogenetics #treeoflife #systematics #cladistics #paleontology

Preserving the Biologically Coherent Generic Concept of Phytophthora, “Plant Destroyer”: “We can see no reason why a Darwinian should adopt the concept of paraphyly” (Ernst Mayr and Walter Bock 2002): Phytopathology®: Vol 0, No 0 Phytophthora is a long-established, well-known, and globally important genus of plant pathogens. Phylogenetic evidence has shown that the biologically distinct, obligate biotrophic downy mildews evolved from Phytophthora at least twice. Because, cladistically, this renders Phytophthora “paraphyletic,” it has been proposed that Phytophthora evolutionary clades be split into multiple genera (Crous et al. 2021; Runge et al. 2011; Thines 2023, 2024). In this letter, we review arguments for the retention of the generic name Phytophthora with a broad circumscription made by Brasier et al. (2022) and by many delegates at an open workshop organized by The American Phytopathological Society. We present our well-considered responses to the genus splitting proposals, both in general terms and in terms of the specific proposals for new genera, alongside new information regarding the biological properties and mode of origin of the Phytophthora clades. We consider that the proposals are mostly non-rigorous and not supported by the scientific evidence. Further, given (i) the apparent lack of any distinguishing biological characteristics (synapomorphies) between the Phytophthora clades; (ii) the fundamental monophyly of Phytophthora in the original Haeckelian sense (Haeckel 1877); (iii) the fact that paraphyly is not a justification for taxonomic splitting; and (iv) the considerable likely damage to effective scientific communication and disease management from an unnecessary breakup of the genus, we report that workshop delegates voted unanimously in favor of preserving the current generic concept and for seeking endorsement of this view by a working group of the International Commission on the Taxonomy of Fungi. Copyright © 2025 The Author(s). This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license.

Just published, #Phytopathology, Letter to the Editor:
Preserving the Biologically Coherent Generic Concept of #Phytophthora, “Plant Destroyer”.

#DownyMildews
#Oomycetes
#Taxonomy
#Systematics
#Paraphyly
#Phylogeny
#Cladistics
#PlantBiosecurity
#ScientificCommunication
#PlantDiseaseManagement

Humans are fish. #cladistics

Phylogeny of the large extinct South American Canids (Mammalia, Carnivora, Canidae) using a “total evidence” approach South America currently possesses a high diversity of canids, comprising mainly small to medium-sized omnivorous species, but in the Pleistocene there were large hypercarnivorous taxa that were assig...

Read this paper in summer of 2014 when spending 4 days @ John Day Fossil Beds in eastern Oregon (An amazing collection of fossils spanning ~50 mill yrs)
Didn’t think of it then: we did this -hand drawn pheno- & cladograms- in our mid-1980’s systematics class.
No computer programs then. #cladistics

⚠️#NewPaperAlert🦀
A new morphological phylogeny of Malacostraca comparing the application of character dependencies and implied weighting.

By Grams et al.
doi.org/10.1111/cla....

#Cladistics #Phylogenetics #Morphology #ImpliedWeights #CharacterDependency #Malacostraca

Preserving the Biologically Coherent Generic Concept of Phytophthora, ‘Plant Destroyer’ | Phytopathology® Phytophthora is a long-established, well known and globally important genus of plant pathogens. Phylogenetic evidence has shown that the biologically distinct, obligate biotrophic downy mildews evolve...

Just out, First Look version:
Preserving the Biologically Coherent Generic Concept of #Phytophthora, ‘Plant Destroyer’ | #PhytoPathology
apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/10.1094/...

#Oomycetes #Taxonomy #Phylogeny #Cladistics #Paraphyly #PlantBiosecurity #ScientificCommunication #PlantDiseaseManagement

SPECIAL ISSUE: ANALYSING DATASETS IN PALAEONTOLOGY 2: Cladistics: Vol 41, No 1 Click on the title to browse this issue

⚠️ Numéro spécial dans Cladistics 41 (1) : ANALYSE DES ENSEMBLES DE DONNÉES EN PALÉONTOLOGIE

#Palaeontology #Paléontologie #Fossils #Phylogénie #Phylogenetics #Systematics #Evolution #TNT #Cladistics

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/10960031...

Despite the infamous editorial (or bc of it?), I have read more classic #cladistics papers this year then the last few combined.

I bet #Cladistics hit record web traffic after that editorial today.