Research Catalog

Title

Molecular systematics and evolution : theory and practice / edited by R. DeSalle, G. Giribet and W. Wheeler.

Publication

Basel ; Boston : Birkhäuser Verlag, [2002], ©2002.

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Additional Authors

• DeSalle, Rob.
• Giribet, Gonzalo.
• Wheeler, Ward.

Description

309 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

EXS ; 92

Uniform Title

EXS ; 92.

Subjects

• Molecular evolution
• Biology > Classification > Molecular aspects

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-303) and index.

Contents

Cladistics, populations and species in geographical space: the case of Heliconius butterflies / Andrew V.Z. Brower -- Species to genera: phylogenetic inference in the Hawaiian Drosophilidae / Patrick M. O'Grady -- Higher level systematic analysis of birds: current problems and possible solutions / Scott E. Stanley and Joel L. Cracraft -- Relative quality of different systematic datasets for cetartiodactyl mammals: assessments within a combined analysis framework / John Gatesy -- Phylogeny of the holometabolous insect orders based on 18S ribosomal DNA: when bad things happen to good data / Michael E. Whiting -- Relationships among metazoan phyla as inferred from 18S rRNA sequence data: a methodological approach / Gonzalo Giribet -- DNA multiple sequence alignments / Gonzalo Giribet, Ward C. Wheeler and Jyrki Muona -- Theory and practice of parallel direct optimization / Daniel A. Janies and Ward C. Wheeler -- Some statistical aspects of the maximum parsimony method / Mike Steel -- 'Pluralism' and the aims of phylogenetic research / Gonzalo Giribet, Rob DeSalle and Ward C. Wheeler -- Molecular systematics and the origin of species: new syntheses or methodological introgressions? / Paul Z. Goldstein and Andrew V.Z. Brower -- Is morphology still relevant? / Richard H. Baker and John Gatesy -- Development, homology and systematics / Ranhy Bang, Ted R. Schultz and Rob DeSalle -- Gene family phylogenetics: tracing protein evolution on trees / Joe Thornton -- Evolution of spider silk proteins: insight from phylogenetic analyses / Cheryl Y. Hayashi -- Comparative methods and evolution / Alfried P. Vogler and Andy Purvis -- The use of physiological data to corroborate cospeciation events / Michele K. Nishiguchi -- Reexamining microbial evolution through the lens of horizontal transfer / Paul J. Planet.

ISBN

• 3764365447 (alk. paper)
• 0817665447 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2001037878

OCLC

• ocm47255256
• SCSB-4282482

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries