title: Chromosomal character optimization.
abstract: A method is presented to optimize chromosomal data on a cladogram. This procedure simultaneously considers variation at the nucleotide and locus levels including nucleotide substitution, insertion and deletion, locus insertions and deletion, and gene rearrangement. Locus labeling is not a requirement of the procedure and such annotation will result from the dynamic homology analysis of the chromosome data. An example of complete arthropod mtDNA sequences is presented.
authors.affiliation: Division of Invertebrates, American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79th Street, New York, NY 10024-5192, USA. wheeler@amnh.org
authors.forename: Ward C
authors.initials: WC
authors.lastname: Wheeler
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002875:Chromosomes / Q000235:genetics*; D004272:DNA, Mitochondrial / Q000235:genetics; D030541:Databases, Genetic; D019143:Evolution, Molecular; D023281:Genomics / Q000379:methods* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D008957:Models, Genetic; D010802:Phylogeny
chemical_list: D004272:DNA, Mitochondrial