An exhaustive survey of the setae from 35 taxa in the mite family Tenuipalpidae was conducted. Bayesian analyses were performed on the resulting dataset to test the utility of maximum likelihood methods for examining morphological data. Likelihood analyses produced comparable results to those obtained from maximum parsimony analyses.
Species 1: Acari Tenuipalpidae (Flat Mites)
Keywords: Maximum Likelihood, Morphology
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