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News record: [365076] Web-illustrated phylogenetic study just published..(read more)

The morphological phylogenetic analysis of relationships among oak gall wasps is documented by some 2,000 images deposited in Morphbank. In the character list in the Appendix of the paper, each character description is linked to a relevant collection of images in Morphbank documenting the scoring of that particular character.

The publication: A fully web-illustrated morphological phylogenetic study of relationships among oak gall wasps and their closest relatives (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae)

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JOHAN LILJEBLAD, FREDRIK RONQUIST, JOSE-LUIS NIEVES-ALDREY, FELIX FONTAL- CAZALLA, PALMIRA ROS-FARRE, DAVID GAITROS, AND JULI PUJADE-VILLAR

just appeared in Zootaxa 1796: 1–73 (June 16, 2008).

The paper is open access and the pdf can be found here
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