REU/RIA: Reconstructing Articulate Brachiopod Phylogeny:    Relevance to Hypotheses of Adaptation and Heterochrony
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Brachipods are marine invertebrates with relatively few                 living species but a rich, diverse fossil record of more than                   3,000 genera.  Dr. Sandra Carlson, a recent Ph.D., proposes a                   superfamily-level study of their ancestor-descendant                            relationships.  She will begin a species-level study of a pivotal               fossil group, the Porambonitacea, and then assemble a genus-                    level dataset on morphological characters for all superfamilies                 of the Articulata, to be culled from the literature.  The first                 subproject will help to establish the proper characters for                     analysis, setting the stage for the second higher level study.                          Considerable research has been done on patterns of evolution            and extinction of the Brachiopoda through time, but if the                      classification of the group is incorrectly constructed, then the                patterns are suspect.  The proposed study will be the first                     explicit, repeatable analysis of evolutionary relationships in                  one of the dominant groups of marine fossil invertebrates.  The                 resulting classification will provide an unprecendented level of                objective synthesis, and will provide a model for invertebrate                  paleontologists to follow.
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