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Cover
Half Title
Dedication
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
1: Dasyurids and 'tree thinking'
Dasyurid evolution and systematic biology
Classification, taxonomy and phylogeny
Tree interpretation
Phylogenetic misconceptions
What phylogeny is
Species and lineages
Phylogeny as an evolutionary framework
When phylogeny is not a tree
The chronicle of dasyurid evolution
Endnotes
2: The diversity of dasyurids
Classification and species names
Natural history information
Dasyurinae
Sminthopsinae
Endnote
3: Dasyurid phylogeny: morphological taxonomy from Linnaeus to Archer
Pre-Darwinian classification and the order of nature
Striving to achieve an evolutionary classification
Evolutionary interpretations of dasyurid anatomy after Hennig
Endnotes
4: Dasyurid phylogeny: molecular systematics, 1977-2003
Molecular studies before DNA sequences
DNA sequence analyses
Molecules and morphology: the problem of Murexia
Endnotes
5: Dasyurid phylogeny: integrative studies
Methodology
Resolving the four-clade structure of Dasyuridae
Morphology and molecules in phylogenetics
Morphology, molecules and Murexia
6: Dasyurid species-level relationships
Dasyurinae
Sminthopsinae
Retrospective
Endnote
7: Dasyurid species recognition
The science of species recognition
Current issues in dasyurid species taxonomy
Documenting dasyurid biodiversity
Endnote
8: Dasyuromorphian families and fossils
Myrmecobiidae
Thylacinidae
Malleodectidae
Dasyuridae
Composition and phylogenetic structure of Dasyuromorphia
Endnote
9: The timing of dasyurid evolution
A literal reading of the fossil record
Early molecular divergence time estimates.
DNA hybridisation and the uniform average rate of genome evolution
Relaxed clocks and statistical calibrations
Relaxed clock estimates of dasyuromorphian divergence times
Total evidence approaches to divergence dating
Summary: the timeline of dasyurid cladogenesis
Endnote
10: Dasyurid macroevolution
Cenozoic climate and geography of Australasia
The rise of dasyurids
Historical biogeography of dasyurids
11: Evolution of the dasyurid phenotype
Skulls and teeth
Anatomy of the penis
Reproductive strategies
Chromosomes
Endnotes
12: Dasyurids past, present and future
Oligocene to Pleistocene: evolution without humans
Whither dasyurids?
Endnote
Appendix: colour images
References
Index.
Half Title
Dedication
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
1: Dasyurids and 'tree thinking'
Dasyurid evolution and systematic biology
Classification, taxonomy and phylogeny
Tree interpretation
Phylogenetic misconceptions
What phylogeny is
Species and lineages
Phylogeny as an evolutionary framework
When phylogeny is not a tree
The chronicle of dasyurid evolution
Endnotes
2: The diversity of dasyurids
Classification and species names
Natural history information
Dasyurinae
Sminthopsinae
Endnote
3: Dasyurid phylogeny: morphological taxonomy from Linnaeus to Archer
Pre-Darwinian classification and the order of nature
Striving to achieve an evolutionary classification
Evolutionary interpretations of dasyurid anatomy after Hennig
Endnotes
4: Dasyurid phylogeny: molecular systematics, 1977-2003
Molecular studies before DNA sequences
DNA sequence analyses
Molecules and morphology: the problem of Murexia
Endnotes
5: Dasyurid phylogeny: integrative studies
Methodology
Resolving the four-clade structure of Dasyuridae
Morphology and molecules in phylogenetics
Morphology, molecules and Murexia
6: Dasyurid species-level relationships
Dasyurinae
Sminthopsinae
Retrospective
Endnote
7: Dasyurid species recognition
The science of species recognition
Current issues in dasyurid species taxonomy
Documenting dasyurid biodiversity
Endnote
8: Dasyuromorphian families and fossils
Myrmecobiidae
Thylacinidae
Malleodectidae
Dasyuridae
Composition and phylogenetic structure of Dasyuromorphia
Endnote
9: The timing of dasyurid evolution
A literal reading of the fossil record
Early molecular divergence time estimates.
DNA hybridisation and the uniform average rate of genome evolution
Relaxed clocks and statistical calibrations
Relaxed clock estimates of dasyuromorphian divergence times
Total evidence approaches to divergence dating
Summary: the timeline of dasyurid cladogenesis
Endnote
10: Dasyurid macroevolution
Cenozoic climate and geography of Australasia
The rise of dasyurids
Historical biogeography of dasyurids
11: Evolution of the dasyurid phenotype
Skulls and teeth
Anatomy of the penis
Reproductive strategies
Chromosomes
Endnotes
12: Dasyurids past, present and future
Oligocene to Pleistocene: evolution without humans
Whither dasyurids?
Endnote
Appendix: colour images
References
Index.