Plant Taxonomy: The Systematic Evaluation of Comparative DataThe field of plant taxonomy has transformed rapidly over the past fifteen years, especially with regard to improvements in cladistic analysis and the use of new molecular data. The second edition of this popular resource reflects these far-reaching and dramatic developments with more than 3,000 new references and many new figures. Synthesizing current research and trends, Plant Taxonomy now provides the most up-to-date overview in relation to monographic, biodiversity, and evolutionary studies, and continues to be an essential resource for students and scholars. |
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... sequence within a particular group (e.g., a different one for Bacteria, Asteraceae, or Bryophyta) or even possibly combining different short sequences (Rubinoff, Cameron, and Will 2006). If successful and if widely used, DNA barcodes ...
... sequences can suggest phylogenetic patterns, but they may not always do so (to be discussed in more detail later). A regressive character is one in which loss of appendages or other features has occurred (Mayr 1969c), such as absence of ...
... sequence similarity due to genetic drift, information content of passive vs. active and single-copy vs. repetitive sequences, and the significance of regulatory vs. structural sequences. Although all the attempts by pheneticists to view ...
... sequences in the late 1980s and early 1990s, the challenge shifted from arguing about philosophical issues of classification to practical concerns of getting trees for answering specific questions about relationships. That is, the ...
... sequences became generally available in the mid-1990s, however, the cladistic parsimony algorithms were unable to efficiently compute relationships using these new huge datasets (sometimes several thousand characters, i.e., base ...
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Plant Taxonomy: The Systematic Evaluation of Comparative Data Tod F. Stuessy No preview available - 2009 |