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Publications
Reports
Technical Reports
Roderic
Page and Gabriel Valiente (submitted) An Edit Script for Taxonomic
Classifications. WABI 2005.[Software]
Page,
RDM (2005). A Taxonomic Search Engine: Federating taxonomic databases using
web services, BMC Bioinformatics 2005, 6:48 doi:10.1186/1471-2105-6-48
[Project web site]
Cotton,
JA and Page, RDM, Rates and patterns of gene duplication and loss in the human
genome, Proc Roy Soc 272:277 - 283 [doi:10.1098/rspb.2004.2969]
Charles
Semple, Philip Daniel, Wim Hordijk, Roderic D. M. Page, and
Mike Steel (2004) Supertree Algorithms for Ancestral Divergence Dates and Nested
Taxa. Bioinformatics 20:2355-60[Supertree
server][PubMed]
Roderic
D. M. Page: Phyloinformatics: Towards a Phylogenetic Database",
in "Data Mining in Bioinformatics" (edited by Jason Wang, et al.).Pages
219-241[Book
web site]
Roderic
D. M. Page, (2004) "Taxonomy, supertrees, and the Tree of Life",
in "Phylogenetic Supertrees: Combining information to reveal the tree of
life" (edited by Olaf Bininda-Emonds), pages 247-265.[Project
web site][Book
web site]
Roderic
D. M. Page Towards a Taxonomically Intelligent Phylogenetic Database.
Technical Reports in Taxonomy 04-01 (paper to be given at DBiBD
at Edinburgh, january 8-9 2005 [PDF]
Vincent S. Smith, Roderic D. M. Page, Kevin P. Johnson (2004). Data incongruence and the problem of avian louse phylogeny. Zoologica Scripta, 33 , 239 -259. [doi:10.1111/j.0300-3256.2004.00149.x ]
Percy,
D.M., Page, R. D. M., and Cronk, Q. C. B. (2004). Plant–Insect
Interactions: Double-Dating Associated Insect and Plant Lineages Reveals Asynchronous
Radiations. Systematic Biology 53:120-127. [doi:10.1080/10635150490264996]
[OpenURL]
Roderic
D. M. Page, Robert H. Cruickshank, Megan Dickens, Robert W. Furness,
Martyn Kennedy, Ricardo L. Palma, and Vincent S. Smith (2004). Phylogeny of
“Philoceanus-complex” seabird lice (Phthiraptera: Ischnocera)
inferred from mitochondrial DNA sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution.[data]
[doi:10.1016/S1055-7903(03)00227-6]
Cotton,
J. A. and R D M. Page. Gene tree parsimony vs. uninode coding
for phylogenetic reconstruction. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution,
29:298-308 [doi:10.1016/S1055-7903(03)00109-X]
Kevin
P. Johnson, Robert H. Cruickshank, Richard J. Adams, Vincent S. Smith, Roderic
D. M. Page and Dale H. Clayton. 2003. Dramatically elevated rate of mitochondrial
substitution in lice (Insecta: Phthiraptera), Molecular Phylogenetics and
Evolution, 26: 231-24 [doi:10.1016/S1055-7903(02)00342-1]
Kevin
P. Johnson, Richard J. Adams, Roderic D. M. Page, Dale H. Clayton. 2003.
When Do Parasites Fail to Speciate in Response to Host Speciation? Systematic
Biology, 52:37-47.[doi:10.1080/10635150390132704]
Gary Benson and Roderic Page (eds) Algorithms in Bioinformatics, Third
International Workshop, WABI 2003, Budapest, Hungary, September 15-20, 2003,
Proceedings Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics, Vol. 2812. Available
online in SpringerLink
Page,
R. D. M. and M. A. Charleston. 2002. TreeMap versus BPA (again): A response
to Dowling. Technical
Reports in Taxonomy 02-02.

Page, R. D. M. (ed). Tangled trees: phylogeny, cospeciation and coevolution. University of Chicago Press.[Symposium web site] [Data, software, and erata]
Page,
R.D.M. Modified mincut supertrees. Pp. 537-551 in R. Guigó and D.
Gusfield (eds), WABI
2002, LNCS 2452. [PDF].
Cotton,
J. A., and R. D. M. Page. 2002. Going nuclear: gene family evolution
and vertebrate phylogeny reconciled. Proceedings of the Royal Society of
London 269:15551561.[data]
Page,
R. D. M., R. Cruickshank, and K. P. Johnson. 2002. Louse mitochondrial 12S
rRNA secondary structure is highly variable. Insect Molecular Biology
11:361-369.[Medline
record][data]
Kennedy,
M. & Page, R.D.M. (2002). Seabird supertrees: Combining partial estimates
of procellariiform phylogeny. The Auk, 119: 88-108.
Page,
R.D.M. and J Cotton (2002). Vertebrate phylogenomics: reconciled trees and
gene duplications.Pages 536-547 in Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing
2002.[Medline
record] PSB 2002.
Page, R. D. M. (2000). Circles: automating the comparative analysis of
RNA secondary structure. Bioinformatics 16: 1042-1043.[Software][Medline
record]
Page, R. D. M. (2000). Comparative analysis of secondary structure of
insect mitochondrial small subunit ribosomal RNA using maximum weighted matching.
Nucleic Acids Research 28: 3839-3845.[MEDLINE
record][Data]
(Reproduced with permission from NAR
Online).
Page, R.D.M. and Cotton, J.C. (2000) GeneTree: a tool for exploring gene family evolution. In D. Sankoff, and J. Nadeau, (eds.), Comparative Genomics: Empirical and Analytical Approaches to Gene Order Dynamics, Map Alignment, and the Evolution of Gene Families. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, pp. 525-536.[Software]
Thorley, J. L., and R. D. M. Page (2000). RadCon:
phylogenetic tree comparison and consensus. Bioinformatics 16:
486-487.[Software]
[Medline
record]
Morand, S., M. S. Hafner, R. D. M. Page, and D. L. Reed (2000). Comparative body size relationships in pocket gophers and their chewing lice.
Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 70: 239-249
Page,
R. D. M. (2000). Extracting species trees from complex gene trees: reconciled
trees and vertebrate phylogeny. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution,
14:89-106. [MEDLINE
record] [Data sets]
Page,
R. D. M. and M. A. Charleston (1999). Comments on Allard and Carpenter (1996),
or the "aquatic ape" hypothesis revisited. Cladistics 15: 73-74.
[Data sets]
Charleston, M. A. and R. D. M. Page (1999). Spectral analysis -- a brief introduction. In: Molecular systematics and plant evolution. P. M. Hollingsworth, R. M. Bateman and R. J. Gornall. London, Taylor & Francis: pp 255-267.
Page, R. D. M. (1998). GeneTree:
comparing gene and species phylogenies using reconciled trees. Bioinformatics,
14:819-820. [MEDLINE
record] [Software]
Page, R. D. M. and Charleston, M. A. (1998).
Trees within trees: Phylogeny and historical associations. Trends in Ecolology and
Evolution, 13:356-359.
Page, R. D. M., Lee, P. L. M., Becher, S. A., Griffiths, R. and Clayton,
D. H. (1998). A different tempo of mitochondrial DNA evolution in birds and
their parasitic lice. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution,9,
276-293 [MEDLINE
record]
Charleston,
M. A. (1998). Jungles: a new solution to the host/parasite phylogeny reconciliation
problem. Mathematical Biosciences, 149, 191-223.
Page, R. D. M. and Charleston, M. A. (1997). From gene to organismal
phylogeny: Reconciled trees and the gene tree/species tree problem. Molecular
Phylogenetics and Evolution, 7, 231-240. [MEDLINE
record]
Clayton, D.H., Price, R.D., & Page, R.D.M. (1996) Revision of Dennyus (Collodennyus) lice (Phithiraptera: Menoponidae) from swiftlets, with descriptions of new taxa and a comparison of louse and host relationships. Systematic Entomology, 21, 179-204.
Page, R.D.M. (1996) On consensus, confidence, and "total" evidence.
Cladistics, 12, 83-92.
Page, R.D.M. (1996) TreeView:
An application to display phylogenetic trees on personal computers. Computer
Applications in the Biological Sciences, 12, 357-358. [MEDLINE
record]
Lee,
P.L.M., Clayton, D.H., Griffiths, R., & Page, R.D.M. (1996) Does
behaviour reflect phylogeny in swiftlets (Aves: Apodidae)? A test using cytochrome
b mitochondrial DNA sequences. Proceedings of the National Academy
of Science, USA, 93, 7091-7096. [MEDLINE
record](Abstract)(Popular
article in Daily Telegraph)
Page, R.D.M. (1996) Temporal congruence revisited:
comparison of mitochondrial DNA sequence divergence in cospeciating
pocket gophers and their chewing lice. Systematic Biology,
45, 151-167. (Abstract)
Page, R.D.M., Clayton, D.H., & Paterson, A.M. (1996) Lice and cospeciation:
A response to Barker. International Journal for Parasitology,
26, 213-218. [Medline
record]
Page, R.D.M., & Hafner, M.S. 1996. Molecular phylogenies and host-parasite cospeciation.: gophers and lice as a model system. Pages 255-270 in New uses for new phylogenies (Harvey, P.H., Leigh Brown, A.J., Maynard Smith, J., & Nee, S., eds.). Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Hafner, M. S. and R.D.M. Page (1995). Molecular phylogenies and host-parasite cospeciation: gophers and lice as a model system. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 349(1327):77-83 [Medline record]
Mooers, A.O., Page, R.D.M., Purvis, A., & Harvey, P.H. (1995) Phylogenetic noise leads to unbalanced cladistic tree reconstructions. Systematic Biology, 44, 332-342. (Abstract)
Page, R.D.M. (1995) Parallel phylogenies: reconstructing the history
of host-parasite assemblages. Cladistics, 10, 155-173.
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Page, R.D.M., Price, R.D.P., & Hellenthal, R.A. (1995) Phylogeny
of Geomydoecus and Thomomydoecus pocket gopher lice (Phthiraptera:
Trichodectidae) inferred from cladistic analysis of adult and first instar morphology.
Systematic Entomology, 20, 129-143. (Tree
and data)
Page, R.D.M. (1994) Maps between trees and cladistic
analysis of historical associations among genes, organisms, and
areas. Systematic Biology, 43, 58-77.
Page, R.D.M., & Lydeard, C. (1994) Towards a cladistic biogeography
of the Caribbean. Cladistics, 10, 21-41.
Page, R.D.M. 1993. COMPONENT: Tree comparison software for Microsoft Windows, version 2.0. The Natural History Museum, London.
Page, R.D.M. (1993) Genes, organisms, and areas: the problem of multiple lineages. Systematic Biology, 42, 77-84.
Page,
R.D.M. (1993) On describing the shape of rooted and unrooted trees. Cladistics,
9, 93-99.
Page, R.D.M. (1993) Parasites, phylogeny and cospeciation. International
Journal of Parasitology 23: 499-506.
Page, R.D.M. (1993) On islands of trees and the efficacy of different methods of branch swapping in finding most-parsimonious trees. Systematic Biology, 42, 200-210.
Final
report on NERC grant GR3/11075 Cospeciation and relative rates of evolution
in lice and birds: a molecular approach Roderic D. M. Page, R. Griffiths,
and R. W. Furness
Report
on NERC Grant GR3/1A095 Molecular phylogenies and host-parasite cospeciation