[Syrphidae] Re: Syrphidae Digest, Vol 1 #110 - 1 msg

[Martin Nickol]

I feel there might be a slight ironically touch.

Martin

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At 12:00 15.09.01 +0100, you wrote:
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>Today's Topics:
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>  1. Flies are not insects but are the sisters to barnacles (christian
thompson)
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>Message: 1
>Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 07:48:14 -0400
>From: "christian thompson" <cthompson@sel.barc.usda.gov>
>To: vcsilva@assis.unesp.br,rileynelson@byu.edu,
>ziegler@dei-eberswalde.de, ZATWAR@EKONOM.AR.WROC.PL,
>tadovit@mail.rcom.ru, shimarcb@mbox.nc.kyushu-u.ac.jp,
>WintertonShaun@netscape.net, syrphidae@nottingham.ac.uk,
>thomas.pape@nrm.se, wheeler@nrs.mcgill.ca,
>VMichelsen@zmuc.ku.dk, zoo@zoo.nsk.su
>Subject: [Syrphidae] Flies are not insects but are the sisters to barnacles
>
>Hey, folks, we always knew that flies were unique among the insects, but=
 now
>Ward Wheeler et alia prove it. Flies are really crustacea, the terrestrial
>barnacles! Isn't cladistics wonderful, especially total evidence.
>
>See this weeks NATURE for the best answer ever to Arthropod phylogeny based
>on eight molecular loci and morphology (Nature, 13 Sept, vol. 143:=
 157-160).
>The study was based on the "principle of total evidence"=20
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>To quote:
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>"The shortest cladogram based on the morphology and gene-order data [303
>characters] alone recognize Mandibulata, Crustacea and Hexapoda as well
>supported clades (Bremer support greater than or equal to 6)."
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>"Drosophila forms a clade with ... a barnacle, and this clade receives a
>moderately high Bremer support value" [55]
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>"To our knowledge, this is the largest data set compiled for such an
>important group of animals and was analysed using unique cluster computer
>technology to provide a comprehensive hypothesis of arthropod=
 relationships,
>Both quality and quantity of data were optimized to create precise and
>robust hypotheses."
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>F. Christian Thompson
>Systematic Entomology Lab., ARS, USDA
>Smithsonian Institution
>Washington, D. C. 20560-0169
>(202) 382-1800 voice
>(202) 786-9422 FAX
>cthompso@sel.barc.usda.gov [NB: no terminal "n"]
>visit our Diptera site at www.diptera.org
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