More comprehensive formal morphological analyses in light of emerging molecular data (e.g. [21], [22]) are clearly needed.
Here, we reiterate the importance of a more comprehensive molecular and morphological study of the mycalesines in this region.
However, the former in particular has often been used in the narrow sense, referring to the data of the 'taxon description', which historically ranges from a brief morphological differential diagnosis to a more or less comprehensive morphological description of a taxon.
In addition, the traits that Berger et al. [1] claim reflect a primitive condition are not found to be so when considered in light of a more comprehensive understanding of the morphological variation of more complete and well documented skeletal series from Palau.
Even so, other characters that river dolphins share have a more restricted distribution, and in the most comprehensive morphological analysis to date, Geisler and Sanders [ 2] listed seven unambiguous synapomorphies for the subclade delimited by all extant river dolphins.
With the advent of faster sequences performed on high-performance, high field strength MRI scanners, it is possible to combine morphological and multiple functional prostatic imaging into a more comprehensive evaluation, with only a small additional time penalty.
Whereas existing imaging techniques are largely limited to morphological evaluation, perfusion imaging has the potential to provide more comprehensive tumor characterization [ 1].
Clearly however, there is need for more morphological and molecular data, more rigorous evaluation of this data, and more comprehensive phylogenetic analyses, a point that all avian systematists appear to be in agreement on [4], [27] [29], [93], [150], [151].
Combining MBF quantified with PET and functional and morphological information obtained with MRI is promising and will allow for a more comprehensive assessment in cardiac disease in a single patient visit.
In addition, a more comprehensive study has analyzed the response of A. niger to carbon starvation in terms of changes in the physiological processes, morphological features, and genome-wide transcription (Nitsche et al. 2012).
