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Publications on using genome-level characters for phylogeny:

Boore, J. L., T. M. Collins, D. Stanton, L. L. Daehler and W. M. Brown, 1995 Deducing arthropod phylogeny from mitochondrial DNA rearrangements. Nature 376: 163-165.

Boore, J. L., 1996 Ancient patterns of arthropod evolution are recorded in mitochondrial genome rearrangements. In Current Topics on Molecular Evolution: Proceedings of the U.S.-Japan Workshop on Molecular Evolution (M. Nei and N. Takahata, eds.). Mishima, Japan, pp. 69-78.

Boore, J. L., D. Lavrov and W. M. Brown, 1998 Gene translocation links insects and crustaceans. Nature 392: 667-668.

Boore, J. L., and W. M. Brown, 1998 Big trees from little genomes: Mitochondrial gene order as a phylogenetic tool. Current Opinion in Genetics and Development 8(6): 668-674.

Boore, J. L., 1999 Phylogenies derived from rearrangements of the mitochondrial genome. In Proceedings of the International Institute for Advanced Studies Symposium on Biodiversity (N. Saitou, ed.). Kyoto, Japan, pp. 9-20.

Lavrov, D., W. M. Brown and J. L. Boore, 2004 Phylogenetic position of the Pentastomida and (pan)crustacean relationships. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 271: 537-544.

Boore, J. L., 2006 The use of genome-level characters for phylogenetic reconstruction. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 21: 439-446.

Boore, J. L. and S. I Fuerstenberg, 2008 Beyond linear sequence comparisons: The use of genome-level characters for phylogenetic reconstruction. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, B, Biological Sciences 363: 1445-1451.

Boore, J. L. and S. I Fuerstenberg, 200x Beyond linear sequence comparisons: The use of genome-level characters for phylogenetic reconstruction. In Animal Evolution: genes, genomes, fossils and trees. (Max Telford and Tim Littlewood, eds.). Oxford University Press, in press.

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