Reconstructing the Tree of Life
eBook - PDF

Reconstructing the Tree of Life

Taxonomy and Systematics of Species Rich Taxa

  1. 368 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Reconstructing the Tree of Life

Taxonomy and Systematics of Species Rich Taxa

About this book

To document the world's diversity of species and reconstruct the tree of life we need to undertake some simple but mountainous tasks. Most importantly, we need to tackle species rich groups. We need to collect, name, and classify them, and then position them on the tree of life. We need to do this systematically across all groups of organisms and b

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Yes, you can access Reconstructing the Tree of Life by Trevor R. Hodkinson,John A.N. Parnell in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Mathematics & Probability & Statistics. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
CRC Press
Year
2006
eBook ISBN
9781420009538
Edition
1
Topic
Mathematics
Subtopic
Probability & Statistics
Index
Mathematics

Table of contents

  1. Front cover
  2. Preface
  3. The Editors
  4. Contributors
  5. Contents
  6. Section A: Introduction and General Context
  7. Chapter 1. Introduction to the Systematics of Species Rich Groups
  8. Chapter 2. Taxonomy/Systematics in the Twenty-First Century
  9. Chapter 3. Assembling the Tree of Life: Magnitude, Shortcuts and Pitfalls
  10. Section B: Reconstructing and Using the Tree of Life
  11. Chapter 4. Evolutionary History of Prokaryotes: Tree or No Tree?
  12. Chapter 5. Supertree Methods for Building the Tree of Life: Divide-and-Conquer Approaches to Large Phylogenetic Problems
  13. Chapter 6. Taxon Sampling versus Computational Complexity and Their Impact on Obtaining the Tree of Life
  14. Chapter 7. Tools to Construct and Study Big Trees: A Mathematical Perspective
  15. Chapter 8. The Analysis of Molecular Sequences in Large Data Sets: Where Should We Put Our Effort?
  16. Chapter 9. Species-Level Phylogenetics of Large Genera: Prospects of Studying Coevolution and Polyploidy
  17. Chapter 10. The Diversification of Flowering Plants through Time and Space: Key Innovations, Climate and Chance
  18. Chapter 11. Skewed Distribution of Species Number in Grass Genera: Is It a Taxonomic Artefact?
  19. Chapter 12. Reconstructing Animal Phylogeny in the Light of Evolutionary Developmental Biology
  20. Section C: Taxonomy and Systematics of Species Rich Groups (Case Studies)
  21. Chapter 13. Insect Biodiversity and Industrialising the Taxonomic Process: The Plant Bug Case Study (Insecta: Heteroptera: Miridae)
  22. Chapter 14. Cichlid Fish Diversity and Speciation
  23. Chapter 15. Fungal Diversity
  24. Chapter 16. Matters of Scale: Dealing with One of the Largest Genera of Angiosperms
  25. Chapter 17. Supersizing: Progress in Documenting and Understanding Grass Species Richness
  26. Chapter 18. Collecting Strategies for Large and Taxonomically Challenging Taxa: Where Do We Go from Here, and How Often?
  27. Chapter 19. Large and Species Rich Taxa: Diatoms, Geography and Taxonomy
  28. Chapter 20. Systematics of the Species Rich Algae: Red Algal Classification, Phylogeny and Speciation
  29. Index
  30. Systematics Association Publications
  31. Back cover