Eliécer E. Gutiérrez

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Does the Future of Systematics Really Rest on the Legacy of One Mid-20th-Century German Entomologist?

The question stated above is the title of a book review (see...

12 December 2017 6,190 39 View

BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION: Would you agree in signing this rebuttal to Pyron's article in the Washington Post?

Dear colleagues, In recent days an article was published in the Washington Post trying to sell the idea that we, humans, should not work towards preventing the extinction of as many endangered...

11 November 2017 6,474 54 View

Datasets of environmental variables available for ecological niche modeling studies on paleoclimates [the oldest possible ]?

Dear colleagues, I am interested on a number of biological questions that I would like to explore using paleoclimatic data and ecological niche modeling. I am familiar with WorldClim data, but I...

03 March 2017 4,679 4 View

Why do some researchers still interpret results from neighbor joining (NJ) analyses as if NJ were able to provide acceptable phylogenetic information?

Why do some researchers still interpret results of neighbor joining (NJ) analyses as if NJ were able to provide acceptable phylogenetic information? (1) Is this because of plane...

11 November 2014 4,886 3 View

Would somebody be able to donate freshly-preserved tissue samples (legally imported) of the deer genera Alces, and/or Rangifer, and/or Muntiacus?

If so, please either write your email address here or send me a message to [email protected] I would greatly appreciate your help!

09 September 2013 5,220 0 View

Any advice on how to objectively assess the best partition scheme to use in phylogenetic analyses of more than 100 mammalian mitogenomes?

I am considering using PartitionFinder and the ca. 45 subsets proposed by Powell et al. 2013 (see citation below), but I am not sure if there are better alternatives. I also would appreciate...

09 September 2013 4,620 29 View