title: Advances in the theory and practice of DNA-hybridization as a systematic method.
abstract: DNA hybridization continues in the 1990s to provide insight into phylogeny and evolution. The resilience of this 30-year-old distance technique may be attributed to its fundamental power as a comparative method, as well as to advances in our understanding of its operation and improvements in experimental design and data analysis. These attributes and advances, along with the assumptions and limitations of DNA hybridization, are discussed in this paper. Examples are provided of recent DNA hybridization studies of molecular, morphological, and behavioral systematics and evolution.
authors.affiliation: Museum of Natural Science, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge 70803.
authors.forename: F H
authors.initials: FH
authors.lastname: Sheldon
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005075:Biological Evolution; D001717:Birds / Q000235:genetics; D009693:Nucleic Acid Hybridization; D010802:Phylogeny