River dolphin characters were optimized onto the trees derived from parsimony analysis of the supermatrix and those supported by analysis of the morphological data with ML/Bayesian molecular constraints.
However, a full assessment of the morphological data set, by means of an independent molecular-based phylogeny is premature without additional sampling of Taenia species.
Moreover, the separation of the northern Turkish (TU1) from the southern Turkish populations obtained by the Ward dendrogram based on the morphological data was also observed based on molecular data (Douaihy et al. 2011: figs 2 4).
By maximum parsimony-based mapping of the morphological data on the phylogenetic relationships we traced evolutionary transformations at the phenotypic level and reconstructed the groundplan of Holometabola and of selected subgroups.
Obviously, in the combined BMCMC analysis, the signal from the morphological data is overwhelmed by the DNA data, which has many more informative characters with stronger phylogenetic signal.
However, it is now foreseeable that non-invasive imaging techniques, in particular because they offer the opportunity to conduct high-throughput studies and the suitability to analyze whole specimens in a non-destructive manner, together with the broader availability of the respective instruments, will change the way by which morphological data will be acquired and analyzed in the future.
The monophyly of the obscura cluster is also suggested by morphological data: in the obscura group, D. dianensis, D. subsilvestris and D. obscura are the only species characterized by pale spots on several abdominal tergites in female [ 30, 40], and large, somewhat quadrate 10th sternite in male [ 30, 41].
Hybrid PET/CT device allows enhanced detection and characterization of neoplastic lesions, by combining the functional data obtained by PET with morphological data obtained by CT [ 4].
Furthermore, to assess a possible role of epithelial cells in tissue mineralization, we explored the cellular phenotype by correlating morphological data with molecular markers revealed by immunohistochemistry.
