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List of Software Used in this Analysis

Phenetic clustering analyses were carried out using MVSP 2.2, a PC-based package produced by Kovach Computing Services, Anglesey, Wales. Results were checked in part using MacDendro and GraphMu, Macintosh-based shareware developed by Jean Thioulouse at the CNRS Laboratoire de Biométrie, Génétique et Biologie des Populations based at the University of Lyon, France. Both of these programs can be downloaded from their respective WWW pages. MacDendro and GraphMu are also available from StatLib at Carnegie Mellon University (listed under "macmulti").

Additional checking of the phenetic analysis was done using the PC-based package NTSYS-PC 1.3. This software is not available over the Internet (at least not legally), but information about the program is available from its publishers, Exeter Software.

Phylogenetic analyses and various tests of the robustness of the conclusions were carried out using PAUP 3.1.1, a Macintosh-based program implementing various parsimony algorithms, written by David Swofford and published by the Smithsonian Institution. At this time little Web-based information is available on PAUP, and version 3.1.1 is not available. A new, greatly expanded version, PAUP*, is supposedly due to be released soon by Sinauer Press. See this list of phylogenetic analysis computer programs, maintained at the Tree of Life project, for information about PAUP.

Component analyses and jacknife tests were done using various component programs of the PHYLIP package. This program is available as freeware from the author's Website.

For those interested in other programs for phylogenetic and classification applications, UCMP maintains this list of software available on the WWW.