Systematics of Calappidae (Decapoda, Brachyura)
Boyce, S.L., Spears, T. and Abele, L.G.
Email: boyce@ucla.edu
Home Page: http://crustacea.nhm.org
Powerpoint Source: calappids.ppt
28 Aug 2001
Table of Contents
Title slide
Outline
Shame-faced crabs
Respiration
Claw
Calappa sp. feeding
Calappid taxonomy
Calappid monophyly?
Morphological Hypotheses of Bellwood (1996)
Objectives
Molecular methods
mt16S MP tree
mt16S ML tree
Larval characters
Preliminary Results
Test of monophyly
Test of sister relationships
Results of hypothesis testing
Nuclear 28s sequencing
Conclusions
Acknowledgements