Screen LibrarySpecies tree inference : a guide to methods and applications /
"Inferring evolutionary relationships among a collection of organisms -- that is, their relationship to each other on the tree of life -- remains a central focus of much of evolutionary biology as these relationships provide the background for key hypotheses. For example, support for different...
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Princeton University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Princeton, New Jersey : |
| Publication Dates: | [2023] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
"Inferring evolutionary relationships among a collection of organisms -- that is, their relationship to each other on the tree of life -- remains a central focus of much of evolutionary biology as these relationships provide the background for key hypotheses. For example, support for different hypotheses about early animal evolution are contingent upon the phylogenetic relationships among the earliest animal lineages. Within the last 20 years, the field of phylogenetics has grown rapidly, both in the quantity of data available for inference and in the number of methods available for phylogenetic estimation. The authors' first book, "Estimating Species Trees: Practical and Theoretical Aspects", published in 2010, gave an overview of the state of phylogenetic practice for analyzing data at the time, but much has changed since then. The goal of this book is to serve as an updated reference on current methods within the field. The book is organized in three sections, the first of which provides an overview of the analytical and methodological developments of species tree inference. Section two focuses on empirical inference. Section three explores various applications of species trees in evolutionary biology. The combination of theoretical and empirical approaches is meant to provide readers with a level of knowledge of both the advances and limitations of species-tree inference that can help researchers in applying the methods, while also inspiring future advances among those researchers with an interest in methodological development"-- |
| Carrier Form: | xxii, 324 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [277]-316) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780691207599 0691207593 9780691207605 0691207607 |
| Index Number: | QH367 |
| CLC: | Q111.4 |
| Call Number: | Q111.4/S741 |
| Contents: |
1 Introduction to Species Tree Inference / 2 Large-Scale Species Tree Estimation / 3 Species Tree Estimation Using ASTRAL:Practical Considerations / 4 Species Tree Estimation Using SitePattern Frequencies / 5 Practical Aspects of Phylogenetic Network AnalysisUsing PhyloNet / 6 Network Thinking: Novel Inference Toolsand Scalability Challenges / 7 Phylogenomic Conflict in Plants / 8 Hybridization in Iochroma / 9 Hybridization and Polyploidy in Penstemon / 10 Comparison of Linked versus Unlinked CharacterModels for Species Tree Inference / 11 The Unfinished Synthesis of ComparativeGenomics and Phylogenetics: Examples fromFlightless Birds / 12 Phylogenetic Analysis under Heterogeneityand Discordance / 13 The Multispecies Coalescent in Space and Time / 14 Tree Set Visualization, Exploration, and Applications / |