Select morphological characters from Bennett et al.

<p><b>[<a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0311365#pone.0311365.ref001" target="_blank">1</a>].</b> We modified some characters to better suit the analysis of the current study, mainly creating binary characters from multistate characters. We followed Sereno’s [<a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0311365#pone.0311365.ref002" target="_blank">2</a>] logical basis, in which there are characters and statements. The characters have 3 components: (1) the primary locator (L1), the entity bearing the quality and that alone cannot unambiguously identify the feature of interest; (2) the secondary locator (L2), the containing structure (not always necessary); and (3) the variable (V), which is the aspect that varies; and (4) the variable qualifier (q) which is the phrase that modifies the variable. The statement has only one component which is the character state (vn) which is the mutually exclusive condition of characters. Below, we use the abbreviation in brackets for each part of the character description to facilitate understanding. A rationale for selecting some of the characters not historically correlated with woodboring are provided below characters 11–17, and 19. Alignment of terminology with the HAO can be found in Supplemental Data S2.</p> <p>(PDF)</p>