Biosystematic information is critical for today's world. Every major concern, such as global warming, food supply, environmental quality, etc., has a biological component that is dependent in part on biosystematic information. What is biosystematic information? Biosystematic information is all data that may be useful to man about organisms, such as what is it, what is it called, what does it lo...

Biosystematic information is all data that may be useful to man about organisms, such as what is it, what is it called, what does it look like, where does it occur, what does it do, when does it do it, and what does all this mean to me (= economic importance). Biosystematic information is organized by names, arranged in a hierarchical classification based on shared (synapomorphic) similarities....

The polyploid Hawaiian silversword alliance (Asteraceae), a spectacular example of adaptive radiation in plants, was shown previously to have descended from North American tarweeds of the Madia/Raillardiopsis group, a primarily diploid assemblage. The origin of the polyploid condition in the silversword alliance was not resolved in earlier biosystematic, cytogenetic, and molecular studies, apar...

Sedimentation in the Lowermost Cambrian of China A. Braun, J.-Y. Chen, D. Waloszek & A. Maas Institute of Palaeontology, University of Bonn, Nussallee 8, D-53115 Bonn, Germany. E-mail: [email protected] Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China University of Ulm, Section for Biosystematic Documentation, Helmholtzstrasse 20, D-98081 Ulm, Ge...