Ward C. Wheeler

Career Trajectory

Research Cluster Map

Direct collaborators. Node size = influence, colour = community, dashed = past collaboration.

• Convergent evolution in the unique and bizarre buccopharyngeal morphology of sand-eating Malagasy tadpoles (Anura: Mantellidae)

  Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society · 2026-04-28

• Taxonomic updates for some confusing Micronesian species of Camponotus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Formicinae)

  The Catalogue of Life · 2026-02-17

• Descriptions of two new, cryptic species of Metasiro (Arachnida: Opiliones: Cyphophthalmi: Neogoveidae) from South Carolina, USA, including a discussion of mitochondrial mutation rates

  The Catalogue of Life · 2026-02-16

• Phylogenetic relationships of family groups in Pentatomoidea based on morphology and DNA sequences (Insecta: Heteroptera)

  The Catalogue of Life · 2026-02-16

• Stranger things: on the novel buccopharyngeal anatomy and functional morphology of ‘ sand-eating’ Malagasy tadpoles (Anura: Mantellidae: Mantidactylus)

  The Catalogue of Life · 2026-02-16

• Taxonomic updates for some confusing Micronesian species of Camponotus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Formicinae)

  The Catalogue of Life · 2026-02-16

• A tale of two bellies: systematics of the oval frogs (Anura: Microhylidae: Elachistocleis)

  The Catalogue of Life · 2026-02-16

• Myrmecicultoridae, a New Family of Myrmecophilic Spiders from the Chihuahuan Desert (Araneae: Entelegynae)

  The Catalogue of Life · 2026-02-16

• Searching for Phylogenetic Networks

  Methods in molecular biology · 2026-01-01

• The phylogenetic relationships of Bokermann´s treefrogs: species groups, reproductive biology, and biogeography (Anura: Hylidae: <i>Bokermannohyla</i>)

  Cladistics · 2025-06-23 · 1 citations

• The limits of phylogenetic analysis: identifying analytical hallucinations

  Cladistics · 2025-05-12

• Phylogenetic minimum description length: an optimality criterion based on algorithmic complexity

  Cladistics · 2025-02-16 · 2 citations

• Stranger things: on the novel buccopharyngeal anatomy and functional morphology of ‘sand-eating’ Malagasy tadpoles (Anura: Mantellidae: <i>Mantidactylus</i>)

  Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society · 2024-10-01 · 5 citations

• CLDF dataset derived from Wheeler and Whiteley's "Evolution of Uto-Aztecan Languages" from 2014

  Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 2024-08-02