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Reconstructing the Tree of Life Taxonomy and Systematics of Species Rich Taxa
372 Pages
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CRC Press
372 Pages
by
CRC Press
368 Pages
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CRC Press
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To document the world’s diversity of species and reconstruct the tree of life we need to undertake some simple but mountainous tasks. Most importantly, we need to tackle species rich groups. We need to collect, name, and classify them, and then position them on the tree of life. We need to do this systematically across all groups of organisms and because of the biodiversity crisis we need to do it... Read more
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.
Biography
Trevor R. Hodkinson, John A. N. Parnell
