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Molecular Systematics and Evolution: Theory and Practice

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Editors:
  1. Rob DeSalle

    1. Division of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA

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  2. Ward Wheeler

    1. Division of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA

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  3. Gonzalo Giribet

    1. Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA

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Part of the book series: Experientia Supplementum (EXS, volume 92)

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-IX
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  2. Evolutionary analysis at different levels

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-3
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    2. Cladistics, populations and species in geographical space: the case of Heliconius butterflies

      • Andrew V. Z. Brower
      Pages 5-15

    3. Species to genera: phylogenetic inference in the Hawaiian Drosophilidae

      • Patrick M. O’Grady
      Pages 17-30

    4. Higher-level systematic analysis of birds: current problems and possible solutions

      • Scott E. Stanley, Joel L. Cracraft
      Pages 31-43

    5. Relative quality of different systematic datasets for cetartiodactyl mammals: assessments within a combined analysis framework

      • John Gatesy
      Pages 45-67

    6. Phylogeny of the holometabolous insect orders based on 18S ribosomal DNA: when bad things happen to good data

      • Michael F. Whiting
      Pages 69-83

    7. Relationships among metazoan phyla as inferred from 18S rRNA sequence data: a methodological approach

      • Gonzalo Giribet
      Pages 85-101

  3. Current problems in molecular systematics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 103-105
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    2. DNA multiple sequence alignments

      • Gonzalo Giribet, Ward C. Wheeler, Jyrki Muona
      Pages 107-114

    3. Theory and practice of parallel direct optimization

      • Daniel A. Janies, Ward C. Wheeler
      Pages 115-123

    4. Some statistical aspects of the maximum parsimony method

      • Mike Steel
      Pages 125-139

    5. ‘Pluralism’ and the aims of phylogenetic research

      • Gonzalo Giribet, Rob DeSalle, Ward C. Wheeler
      Pages 141-146

    6. Molecular systematics and the origin of species: new syntheses or methodological introgressions?

      • Paul Z. Goldstein, Andrew V. Z. Brower
      Pages 147-161

    7. Is morphology still relevant?

      • Richard H. Baker, John Gatesy
      Pages 163-174

    8. Development, homology and systematics

      • Ranhy Bang, Ted R. Schultz, Rob DeSalle
      Pages 175-186

  4. New approaches to molecular evolution

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 187-189
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    2. Gene family phylogenetics: tracing protein evolution on trees

      • Joe Thornton
      Pages 191-207

    3. Evolution of spider silk proteins: insight from phylogenetic analyses

      • Cheryl Y. Hayashi
      Pages 209-223

    4. Comparative methods and evolution

      • Alfried P. Vogler, Andy Purvis
      Pages 225-236
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About this book

Important practical implications are established by case reports and specific examples. The present book is the ideal complement to the practitioner’s manual Techniques in Molecular Systematics and Evolution, recently published by the same editors in the Birkhäuser MTBM book series.

The first part of this book deals with important applications of evolutionary and systematic analysis at different taxonomic levels. The second part discusses DNA multiple sequence alignment, species designations using molecular data, evo-devo and other topics that are problematic or controversial. In the last part, novel topics in molecular evolution and systematics, like genomics, comparative methods in molecular evolution and the use of large data bases are described. The final chapter deals with problems in bacterial evolution, considering the increasing access to large numbers of complete genome sequences.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Division of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA

    Rob DeSalle, Ward Wheeler

  • Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA

    Gonzalo Giribet

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Molecular Systematics and Evolution: Theory and Practice

  • Editors: Rob DeSalle, Ward Wheeler, Gonzalo Giribet

  • Series Title: Experientia Supplementum

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-8114-2

  • Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Basel AG 2002

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-7643-6544-8Published: 01 January 2002

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-0348-9442-5Published: 02 November 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-0348-8114-2Published: 08 March 2013

  • Series ISSN: 1664-431X

  • Series E-ISSN: 2504-3692

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 309

  • Topics: Life Sciences, general, Biomedicine general

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