Although the examination of latitudinal gradients of species richness is common, little attention has been devoted to other components of biodiversity such as phenetic diversity. Because the phenotype reflects aspects of an organism’s environment, ecological relationships and evolutionary history, measures of phenetic diversity likely provide complimentary information to that of species richnes...

a phenetic analysis is presented using sahn clustering (upgma, simple matching coefficient). the resulting phenetic analysis is compared with the classification of oxytropis as suggested by bunge [2] and vassilczenko [ll]. the results partly correspond with bungean classification and suggest that there are basically four sections (mesogaea, oxytropis, janthina, eumorphu) which can be grouped un...

Molecular profiling experiments have become standard in current wet-lab practices. Classically, enrichment analysis has been used to identify biological functions related to these experimental results. Combining molecular profiling results with the wealth of currently available interactomics data, however, offers the opportunity to identify the molecular mechanism behind an observed molecular p...

A phenetic analysis is presented using SAHN clustering (UPGMA, simple matching coefficient). The resulting phenetic analysis is compared with the classification of Oxytropis as suggested by Bunge [2] and Vassilczenko [ll]. The results partly correspond with Bungean classification and suggest that there are basically four sections (Mesogaea, Oxytropis, Janthina, Eumorphu) which can be group...

Phenelic clustering, the farming of hierarchical nonoverlapping groups strictly according to degree of similarity, has serious shcrrtcomings as it is commonly used in biology. When used as a method for estimatingphylogeny, phenetic clustering rests on a questionable assumption of correspondence between similarity and recency of common ancestry. This compromises its ability to reconstruct the co...