Molecular data, phylogenetic tree

In principle, phylogenetic trees may be generated from any data set that contains phylogenetic information. This chapter, however, is confined to nucleotide and amino acid sequences. These are the most widely used sources of molecular information for phylogenetic studies of species or higher taxa such as families or orders, and the phylogeny of proteins is an important and useful pursuit in its own right. To make a tree... 

Fig. 7.1. Phylogenetic relationships between aerobic and anaerobic protists (based on a variety of molecular data). Superimposed is a tentative evolutionary tree of mitochondria (M), modified mitochondria (MM), mitochondrial remnants (MR), mitosomes (MS), and hydrogenosomes (H). The solid black lines indicate phylogenetic relationships that are based on the analysis of mitochondrial genomes. Dashed lines indicate the loss of organellar genomes. Mitosomes and hydrogenosomes evolved in rather distinct lineages of unicellular organisms, suggesting that neither all mitosomes nor all hydrogenosomes are the same...

Biological and molecular sequence data describing the coronin gene family provide intriguing but limited information about their species distribution, expression profiles and struetural features relevant to function. " A comprehensive phylogenetic analysis can be instructive to document gene family history, rationalize its nomenclature and fiilly appreciate the diversity and relatedness of individual members. Phylogenetic tree reconstruction is most reliable when supported by a broad... 

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Fig. 2.1 Phylogenetic tree of the lamiids sensu Bremer et al. (2002) (syn. Euasterids I) established by cladistic analyses based on molecular data sets outgroup CampanuUds sensu Bremer et al. (2002) (syn. Euasterids II) for details and further references see text...

Fig. 2.3 Phylogenetic tree of the Convolvulaceae established by cladistic analyses based on molecular data sets (Stefanovic et al. 2003) outgroup Solanaceae for deteiils see text. Genera in bold indicate the significance for this book (presence of phytochemical data in the literature for this specific genus), in addition the genus Cressa ought to be printed in bold-face genera in standard type indicate that there are no data available...

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