Is molecular data supplanting morphological data in modern phylogenetic studies?

The use and role of morophology and molecular data within modern phylogenetics have been debated, often quite passionately, for well over a decade. Howevere, there has been no empiracle data to examine the use of each type of data within entomology. Herein we have gathered data from 11 journals representing the major systematic/phylogenetic journals today. Data gathered from these journals included the type and amount of data supporting each phylogenetic analysis (e.g., DNA and number of base pairs or Morphology and number of characters), as well as number of included taxa, etc. These data were gathered for vertebrates, plants and arthropods (mostly representing insects)over the last 15 years. Findings include morphology being used significantly more within insects than any other group and an increase in the use of molecular data over the last 7 years within entomology as comparted to the other gourps. Also, there is a slight increase in the total number of analyses that include both morphological and molecular data together.