With increasing frequency, systematic and evolutionary biologists have turned to the techniques of molecular biology to complement their traditional morphological and anatomical approaches to questions of the historical relationship and descent among groups of animals and plants. In particular, the comparative analysis of DNA sequences is becoming a common and important focus of research attention today. The objective of this volume is to survey the emerging field of molecular systematics of DNA sequences, and to appraise the strengths and limitations of the different approaches yielded by these techniques. The contributors are an internationally recognized group of investigators from different schools and disciplines who critically address a diversity of crucial questions about DNA systematics, including DNA sequence data acquisition, phylogenetic inference, congruence and consensus problems, limitations of molecular data, and the integration of molecular and morphological data sets. The work will interest all botanists and zoologists involved in systematics, taxonomy, and evolution.
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"Valuable contributions. . .make this worth buying. . . .[Is] worth reading by any systematist, whether using molecular or conventional data." --Plant Science Bulletin
"A window onto the current state of the art of this field. . . .[Will] prove useful and interesting to evolutionary theorists, molecular biologists, and those involved in various genome projects. . . .A welcome addition to the library, reflecting as it does the integration of knowledge and an interdisciplinary approach to deep and interesting issues in biology." --Bio/Technology
"The contributors have taken on some of the most difficult problems in the phylogenetic analysis of DNA sequence data. This well-edited book is a timely statement of the science; I recommend it highly." --BioScience
"Captures the excitement that the increasing availablility of DNA sequence data is bringing to the study of systematics. I enjoyed the book. I learnt a great deal from it and would recommend it as a useful reference and entrance to the literature. . . . the standards of writing and presentation are both high." --Journal of Classification
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Michael M. Miyamoto is at University of Florida. Joel Cracraft is at University of Illinois College of Medicine.
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topological errors, global parsimony analysis, compositional inequalities, cladistic signal, largest common pruned trees, second internal branch, congruence among data sets, compositional statistics, best supported tree, rival trees, substitutional saturation, consensus indices, chemical sequencing procedure, tree comparison metrics, oligomer primers, divergent domains, sequencing contigs, base compositional biases, phylogenetic weighting, transversional changes, methodological parsimony, evolutionary parsimony method, consensus index, parsimony procedures, incorrect tree Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Academic Press, Molecular Evolution, Elsevier Science Publishers, Nucleic Acids Res, Plenum Press, The Hierarchy of Life, Columbia University Press, Savant Speedvac, Cambridge University Press, Sinauer Associates, Numerical Taxonomy, University of Florida, Illinois Natural History Survey, Cold Spring Harbor Symp, Stockton Press, National Science Foundation, University of Illinois Press, Charles Darwin, Boca Raton, San Francisco, Total Tree, Sequencing Core, Human Genome Initiative, Oak Ridge Browse Sample Pages:
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topological errors, global parsimony analysis, compositional inequalities, cladistic signal, largest common pruned trees, second internal branch, congruence among data sets, compositional statistics, best supported tree, rival trees, substitutional saturation, consensus indices, chemical sequencing procedure, tree comparison metrics, oligomer primers, divergent domains, sequencing contigs, base compositional biases, phylogenetic weighting, transversional changes, methodological parsimony, evolutionary parsimony method, consensus index, parsimony procedures, incorrect tree Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Academic Press, Molecular Evolution, Elsevier Science Publishers, Nucleic Acids Res, Plenum Press, The Hierarchy of Life, Columbia University Press, Savant Speedvac, Cambridge University Press, Sinauer Associates, Numerical Taxonomy, University of Florida, Illinois Natural History Survey, Cold Spring Harbor Symp, Stockton Press, National Science Foundation, University of Illinois Press, Charles Darwin, Boca Raton, San Francisco, Total Tree, Sequencing Core, Human Genome Initiative, Oak Ridge Browse Sample Pages:
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