The debris artifacts on the sample surface, which mainly came from disintegration of bacterial cells during washing and fixation processes, generated false morphological data and thus affected the morphology analysis significantly (Moloney et al. 2004).
The motivation for choosing the taxa sequenced here was that the relationships among them are well-established (based on both morphological and molecular data); thus, these known relationships provide a benchmark against which the COS-DNA phylogenies can be compared.
We show that, in contrast to classical preparative procedures, magnetic resonance imaging can give rapid, destruction-free access to morphological data from numerous specimens, thus extending the range of techniques available for comparative studies of invertebrate morphology.
Morphological data were normally distributed and thus were not transformed.
Our data thus yield a morphological correlate to these interactions of αSyn with tubulin and actin.
Our study presents empirical evidence against the commonly held view that genomic data, by virtue of their abundance, will inevitably 'swamp out' conflicting signals from morphological data, rendering their contribution negligible and thus ignorable (viz., that phenotypic characters are merely baubles to be suspended on genomic trees).
Debate in creating classificatory trees and reconstructing the historical record is thus about the relative significance of the fossil shell record, as there is little information on tissue morphology, and the importance of morphological data obtained from living representatives.
Thus, it is possible that the morphological data are simply not robust enough to determine, with confidence, whether certain Oligocene fossils are stem or crown odontocetes.
Verification of the theory thus requires a careful analysis of abundant morphological data and numerical modeling of sediment transports.
We thus discarded all the published phylogenies only based on morphological data [ 84].
