Note that few of them will probably not be considered in future either because of insufficient diagnostic morphological characters or because they do not represent monophyletic lineages.
As in that study, between-character scaling (sensu Wiens [ 125]) was achieved by down-weighting ordered, multistate, morphological characters so that they have the same minimum length as a binary character, one step.
Among these results, the polyphyly of pulmonates is perhaps the most remarkable, and warns against only relying on one or few morphological characters (even if they seem to be free of convergent evolution) to define deep phylogenetic relationships.
Before molecular phylogenetics the placement of these genera within Pezizomycotina remained tentative; morphological characters were misleading because they do not produce multicellular ascocarps, a defining character of Pezizomycotina.
The morphological characters included culture characteristics and the morphology of conidia.
The different genera are morphologically and ecologically highly divergent, with no known diagnostic morphological characters.
Molecular characters can often be identified less ambiguously than morphological characters.
Species were identified according to their morphological characters.
All measurements of morphological characters are summarized in Table 2.
Data was recorded on various morphological characters after 8 months.
