Re: Combined answer 1: cladistics

[SeanSt8579@aol.com]

In a message dated 2/1/04 6:51:18 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
david.marjanovic@gmx.at writes:

<< No; are the known phylogenies those of viruses? >>

In the second case, yes (Bacteriophage T7). Atchley & Fitch used inbred 
strains of Mus musculus.

<<Seems too good to be true. Neighbor-joining is phenetics. I must confess I
don't know Fitch-Margoliash, Cavalli-Sforza or unweighted pair-group... the
latter sounds phenetic :-) ... do you have the complete refs?>>

Yuppers. 

Atchely, W.R. & Fitch, W.M. 1991. Gene trees and the origins of inbred 
strains of mice. Science 254: 554-558.

Hillis, D.M. et al. 1992. Experimental phylogenetics: generation of a known 
phylogeny. Science 255: 589-592.

It's unfortunate, though, that neither of these use morphologic character 
data, but I suppose thats inevitable.

-Sean