Publications and Data

Whiting, M. F., S. Bradler, and T. Maxwell. Loss and recovery of wings in stick insects. Nature 421:264-267. PDF paper and Data Set

Whiting, M. F. Mecoptera is Paraphyletic: multiple genes and phylogeny of Mecoptera and Siphonaptera. Zoologica Scripta 31: 93-105. PDF paper and Data Set

Whiting, M. F. Phylogeny of the holometabolous insect orders: Molecular evidence. Zoologica Scripta 31: 3-17. PDF paper and Data set

Whiting, M. F. Phylogeny of the holometabolous insect orders based on 18S ribosomal data: when bad things happen to good data. Molecular Systematics and Evolution: Theory and Practice, Edited by R. DeSalle, G. Giribet and W. Wheeler eds. Birkhauser Press (in press). PDF paper and Data Set

Cryan, J.R., J.K. Liebherr, J.W. Fetzner, Jr., and M.F. Whiting. Evaluation of relationships within the endemic Hawaiian Platynini (Coleoptera: Carabidae) based on molecular and morphological evidence. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 21:72-85. PDF paper and Data Sets

Whiting, M. F., J. M. Carpenter, Q. D. Wheeler, and W. C. Wheeler. The Strepsiptera problem: Phylogeny of the holometabolous insect orders inferred from 18S and 28S ribosomal DNA sequences and morphology. Systematic Biology 46:1-68. PDF paper and Data Sets

Svenson and Whiting (2004)

Please click on a file to download the dataset:
 16Sa, 16Sb, 18Sa, 18Sb, 18Sc, 18Sd, 28Sa, 28Sb, 28Sc, 28Sd, 28Se, 28Sf, 28Sg, COII, H3.

You may also use the nexus file (created from the implied alignment from POY) for further analysis.

The Strepsiptera problem: Datasets

18S rDNA Unformatted (unformatted version)

18S rDNA (18S data set with inserts coded in an appendix)

28S rDNA (28S data set with inserts coded in an appendix)

Morphology + 18S + 28S ( IUPAC codes converted to numerical format for analysis via NONA)

Morphology (Morphological data set for analysis in NONA via WinClada. Includes descriptions of characters and states)