Phylogenetic Trees Made Easy: A How-To Manual

Synopsis

Barry G. Hall Helps Beginners Get Started In Creating Phylogenetic Trees From Protein Or Nucleic Acid Sequence Data. Read Me First! -- Tutorial : Estimate A Tree! -- Acquiring -- Aligning The Sequences -- Major Methods For Estimating Phylogenetic Trees -- Neighbor-joining Trees -- Drawing Phylogenetic Trees -- Parsimony -- Maximum Likelihood -- Bayesian Inference Of Trees Using Mrbayes -- Working With Various Computer Platforms -- Advanced Alignment Using Guidance -- Reconstructing Ancestral Sequences -- Detecting Adaptive Evolution -- Phylogenetic Networks -- Some Final Advice : Learn To Program -- File Formats And Their Interconversion -- Additional Programs. Barry G. Hall. Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes.