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David Maddison's Home Page
David Maddison's Home Page
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My research focuses on the evolution of beetles, and developing methods of phylogenetic analysis. I have concentrated on the evolution of adult and larval structure, and chromosomes, of ground beetles (Carabidae). I am now looking at the phylogeny of the major lineages of beetles, using DNA sequence data as well as morphological characters. My work in phylogenetic theory centers on developing phylogenetic methods by which we can learn about character evolution. One expression of this work is the computer program MacClade. My newest large project is the Tree of Life, a collection of World Wide Web pages that seeks to comprise an illustrated, annotated phylogeny of all living things.
Here are some things David does (or used to do):
The Tree of Life Project
- MacClade
- Beetle Evolution Projects
- Phylogenetic Theory Projects
- Computer Programs
- Illustrations of Insects
- T-shirts
- B.U.N.K.
- Nanaimo Bars!
Here is some more information:
- List of Publications
- How to contact David
- Lab Home Page
The Tree of Life Project 
David Maddison and Wayne Maddison
Check out the Tree of Life.
MacClade 
Wayne Maddison and David Maddison
MacClade is a program for analyzing phylogenies and character evolution.
Check out MacClade's WWW site.
Beetle Evolution Projects
Previous projects include:
- Chromosomal diversity in the carabid beetle genus Bembidion
- Systematics of the carabid beetle genus Amblygnathus (George Ball and David Maddison)
- Evolution of subgenus Bracteon of the carabid genus Bembidion
Current projects include:
- The carabid genus Bembidion
- Systematics of subgenus Pseudoperyphus
- Phylogeny of Bembidion
- Larval diversity
- Genitalic diversity
- Relationships of adephagan families (with David Kavanaugh, Rolf Beutel, Alfried Vogler, Karen Ober, Michael Baker, et al.)
- Relationships of carabid tribes using molecular sequence data (with Michael Baker, Karen Ober, David Kavanaugh, and Rolf Beutel)
- Cytogenetics of carabids
Phylogenetic Theory Projects
Previous projects:
- outgroup analysis
- analysis of large data sets (Mitochondrial Eve analyses)
- multiple islands of optimal trees
- analysis of character evolution
Computer Programs
[MacClade, Genetics stack, PopDyn, Island Biogeography...]
Illustrations of Insects
Between 1976 and 1984, I spent some of my time doing habitus illustrations of insects. Some of the illustrations, and a list of all of them, are shown here.
T-shirts
During grad school, I had a number of displacement activities. A popular one was designing T-shirts. Some of my T-shirts are shown here.
B.U.N.K.
Yet another grad-student, displayment-activity project was B.U.N.K., a publication about "Beetles and their universe". John Acorn (currently of "Acorn the Nature Nut" and "Twits and Pishers" fame) and Bob Anderson (who now studies weevils in Ottawa) and I put together two issues.
How to contact David
Electronic mail:
FAX: (520) 621-1150
Phone: (520) 621-9781
Institutional address:
David Maddison
Department of Entomology
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ 85721
U.S.A.
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