Phylogenetic supertrees : combining information to reveal the tree of life /

This is the first book on "phylogenetic supertrees", a recent, but controversial development for inferring evolutionary trees. Rather than analyze the combined primary character data directly, supertree construction proceeds by combining the tree topologies derived from those data. This di...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: SpringerLink (Online service), Annual International Conference on Computational Molecular Biology
Other Authors: Bininda-Emonds, O. R. P. (Editor)
Format: Conference Proceeding eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Science+Business Media, [2004]
Series:Computational biology ; volume 4.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • New uses for old phylogenies : an introduction to the volume / Olaf R.P. Bininda-Emonds
  • The MRP method / Bernard R. Baum and Mark A. Ragan
  • An assessment of matrix representation with compatibility in supertree construction / Howard A. Ross and Allen G. Rodrigo
  • MRF supertrees / G. Gordon Burleigh [and others]
  • Everything you always wanted to know about average consensus, and more / François-Joseph Lapointe and Claudine Levasseur
  • Tangled trees from multiple markers : reconciling conflict between phylogenies to build molecular supertrees / James Cotton and Roderic R.M. Page
  • Supertree methods for ancestral divergence dates and other applications / David Bryant, Charles Semple and Mike Steel
  • Supertree algorithms for nested taxa / Philip Daniel and Charles Semple
  • Quartet supertrees / Raul Piaggio-Talice, J. Gordon Burleigh and Oliver Eulenstein
  • Bayesian supertrees / Fredrik Ronquist, John Huelsenbeck and Tom Britton
  • Some desiderata for liberal supertrees / Mark Wilkinson [and others]
  • Taxonomy, supertrees, and the tree of life / Roderic D.M. Page
  • Garbage in, garbage out : data issues in supertree construction / Olaf R.P. Bininda-Emonds [and others]
  • Reconstructing divergence times for supertrees : a molecular approach / Rutger Vos and Arne Ø. Mooers
  • Performance of supertree methods on various data set decompositions / Usman Roshan [and others]
  • Unrooted supertrees : limitations, traps, and phylogenetic patchworks / Sebastian Böcker
  • The cladistics of matrix representation with parsimony analysis / Harold N. Bryant
  • A critique of matrix representation with parsimony supertrees / John Gatesy and Mark S. Springer
  • Supertrees, components and three-item data / David M. Williams
  • A molecular supertree of the Artiodactyla / Annette S. Mahon
  • Supertrees : using complete phylogenies in comparative biology / John L. Gittleman, Kate E. Jones and Samantha A. Price
  • Using supertrees to investigate species richness in grasses and flowering plants / Nicolas Salamin and T. Jonathan Davies
  • Detecting diversification rate variation in supertrees / Brian R. Moore, Kai M.A. Chan and Michael J. Donoghue.