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9780199297306

Parsimony, Phylogeny, And Genomics

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    0199297304

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2006-06-01
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Summary

Parsimony analysis (cladistics) has long been one of the most widely used methods of phylogenetic inference in the fields of systematic and evolutionary biology. Moreover it has mathematical attributes that lend itself for use with complex, genomic-scale data sets. This book demonstrates the potential that this powerful hierarchical data summarization method also has for both structural and functional comparative genomic research.

Author Biography


Victor Albert is a Professor at The Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, Norway. Dr. Albert has published and lectured broadly in the fields of phylogenetic theory and methodology, plant systematics and evolution, plant molecular developmental biology, and evolutionary genomics.

Table of Contents

Contributors ix
Parsimony and phylogenetics in the genomic age
1(14)
Victor A. Albert
I Philosophical aspects of parsimony analysis, including comparison with model-based approaches
What is the rationale for `Ockham's razor' (a.k.a. parsimony) in phylogenetic inference?
15(28)
Arnold G. Kluge
Parsimony and its presuppositions
43(14)
Elliott Sober
II Parsimony, character analysis, and optimization of sequence characters
The logic of the data matrix in phylogenetic analysis
57(14)
Brent D. Mishler
Alignment, dynamic homology, and optimization
71(10)
Ward C. Wheeler
Parsimony and the problem of inapplicables in sequence data
81(38)
Jan E. De Laet
III Computational limits of parsimony analysis: from historical aspects to competition with fast model-based approaches
The limits of conventional cladistic analysis
119(29)
Jerrold I. Davis
Kevin C. Nixon
Damon P. Little
Parsimony and Bayesian phylogenetics
148(15)
Pablo A. Goloboff
Diego Pol
IV Mathematical attributes of parsimony
Maximum parsimony and the phylogenetic information in multistate characters
163(18)
Mike Steel
David Penny
V Parsimony and genomics
Using phylogeny to understand genomic evolution
181(9)
David A. Liberles
Dollo parsimony and the reconstruction of genome evolution
190(11)
Igor B. Rogozin
Yuri I. Wolf
Vladimir N. Babenko
Eugene V. Koonin
References 201(17)
Index 218

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