Phylogenetic Supertrees Combining Information to Reveal the Tree of Life

Name: Phylogenetic Supertrees Combining Information to Reveal the Tree of Life
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ISBN: 9781402023293

ISBN-10: 1402023294

ISBN-13: 9781402023293

Edition: 2004

Authors: Olaf R. P. Bininda-Emonds

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This is the first book on " phylogenetic supertrees ", a recent, but controversial development for inferring evolutionary trees. Rather than analyze the combined primary character data directly, supertree construction proceeds by combining the tree topologies derived from those data. This difference in strategy has allowed for the exciting possibility of larger, more complete phylogenies than are otherwise currently possible, with the potential to revolutionize evolutionarily-based research. This book provides a comprehensive look at supertrees, ranging from the methods used to build supertrees to the significance of supertrees to bioinformatic and biological research. Reviews of many the…

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List price: $219.99
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Publication date: 8/25/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 550
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 4.004



List of contributors


Preface and acknowledgements


Introduction


New uses for old phylogenies: an introduction to the volume




Reviews of existing methods. The MRP method



An assessment of matrix representation with compatibility in supertree construction



MRF supertrees



Everything you always wanted to know about average consensus and more



Tangled trees from multiple markers: reconciling conflict between phylogenies to build molecular supertrees




New supertree methods


Supertree methods for ancestral divergence dates and other applications



Steel Supertree algorithms for nested taxa



Quartet supertrees



Some desiderata for liberal supertrees



Taxonomy, supertrees and the Tree of Life



Garbage in, garbage out: data issues in supertree construction



Reconstucting divergence times for supertrees: a molecular approach



Performance of supertree methods on various data set decompositions




A critical look at supertrees


Unrooted supertrees: Limitations, traps and phylogenic patchworks



The cladistics of matrix representation with parsimony analysis



A critique of matrix representation with parsimony supertrees



Supertrees, components and three-item data




Supertrees and their applications


A molecular supertree of the Artiodactyla



Supertrees: using complete phylogenies in comparative biology



Using supertrees to investigate species richness in grasses and flowering plants



Detecting diversification rate variation in supertrees



Subject Index