Trevor R. Hodkinson / John AN Parnell (eds.)

Reconstructing the Tree of Life

Taxonomy and Systematics of Species Rich Taxa
Herausgeber: Hodkinson, Trevor R; Parnell, John A N

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Produktbeschreibung

Of relevance to systematic, taxonomic, and evolutionary biologists, Reconstructing the Tree of Life: Taxonomy and Systematics of Species Rich Taxa features the contributions of leading experts, who examine recent progress and consider future developments. Detailing a broad range of organisms, the text addresses the task of reconstructing and making best use of the tree of life. It also discusses global diversity issues and the taxonomic problems of dealing with species rich taxa that are central to the problem of reconstructing the tree of life.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• 1999 edition
• Seitenzahl: 372
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Dezember 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 257mm x 186mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 798g
• ISBN-13: 9780849395796
• ISBN-10: 0849395798
• Artikelnr.: 23263727

Autorenporträt

Trevor R. Hodkinson, John A. N. Parnell

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction to the Systematics of Species Rich Groups.
Taxonomy/Systematics in the Twenty-First Century. Assembling the Tree of
Life: Magnitude, Shortcuts and Pitfalls. Evolutionary History of
Prokaryotes: Tree or No Tree? Supertree Methods for Building the Tree of
Life: Divide-and-Conquer Approaches to Large Phylogenetic Problems. Taxon
Sampling versus Computational Complexity and Their Impact on Obtaining the
Tree of Life. Tools to Construct and Study Big Trees: A Mathematical
Perspective. The Analysis of Molecular Sequences in Large Data Sets: Where
Should We Put Our Effort? Species-Level Phylogenetics of Large Genera:
Prospects of Studying Coevolution and Polyploidy. The Diversification of
Flowering Plants through Time and Space: Key Innovations, Climate and
Chance. Skewed Distribution of Species Number in Grass Genera: Is It a
Taxonomic Artefact? Reconstructing Animal Phylogeny in the Light of
Evolutionary Developmental Biology. Insect Biodiversity and Industrialising
the Taxonomic Process: The Plant Bug Case Study (Insecta: Heteroptera:
Miridae). Cichlid Fish Diversity and Speciation. Fungal Diversity. Matters
of Scale: Dealing with One of the Largest Genera of Angiosperms.
Supersizing: Progress in Documenting and Understanding Grass Species
Richness. Collecting Strategies for Large and Taxonomically Challenging
Taxa: Where Do We Go from Here, and How Often? Large and Species Rich Taxa:
Diatoms, Geography and Taxonomy. Systematics of the Species Rich Algae: Red
Algal Classification, Phylogeny and Speciation.