Assembling the tree of life
Provides a synthesis of knowledge about the history of life. This work treats the major groups of organisms. It is useful for evolutionary biologists, taxonomists, ecologists interested in biodiversity, and for organismic biologists, botanists, and microbiologists
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9781423720737, 9780195172348, 9780195172355, 9781602564961, 9781280428036, 9780199729609, 9786610428038, 1423720733, 0195172345, 0195172353, 1602564965, 1280428031, 0199729603, 6610428034
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Introduction : Charting the tree of life / Michael J. Donoghue and Joel Cracraft
The importance of the tree of life to society / Terry L. Yates, Jorge Salazar-Bravo and Jerry W. Dragoo
A tangled bank : reflections on the tree of life and human health / Rita R. Colwell
The fruit of the tree of life : insights into evolution and ecology / Douglas J. Futuyma
The tree of life : an overview / S.L. Baldauf [and others]
The early branches in the tree of life / Norman R. Pace
Bacteria and archaea / W. Ford Doolittle
The origin and radiation of eucaryotes / Hervé Philippe
Viruses and the tree of life / David P. Mindell, Joshua S. Rest and Luis P. Villarreal
Algal evolution and the early radiation of green plants / Charles F. Delwiche [and others]
The radiation of vascular plants / Kathleen M. Pryer, Harald Schneider, and Susana Magallón
The diversification of flowering plants / Pamela S. Soltis [and others]
The Fungi / John W. Taylor [and others]
The history of animals / Douglas J. Eernisse and Kevin J. Peterson
Protostomes and Platyhelminthes : the worm's turn / D. Timothy J. Littlewood, Maximilian J. Telford and Rodney A. Bray
Toward a tree of life for Annelida / Mark E. Siddall, Elizabeth Borda and Gregory W. Rouse
The Mollusca : relationships and patterns from their first half-billion years / David R. Lindberg, Winston F. Ponder and Gerhard Haszprunar
Arthropod systematics : the comparative study of genomic, anatomical, and paleontological information / Ward C. Wheeler, Gonzalo Giribet and Gregory D. Edgecombe
Arachnida / Jonathan A. Coddington [and others]
Are the crustaceans monophyletic? / Frederick R. Schram and Stefan Koenemann. Phylogenetic relationships and evolution of insects / Rainer Willmann
Phylogeny of the holometabolous insects : the most successful group of terrestrial organisms / Michael F. Whiting
From bilateral symmetry to pentaradiality : the phylogeny of hemichordates and echinoderms / Andrew B. Smith [and others]
Chordate phylogeny and development / Timothy Rowe
Gnathostome fishes / M.L.J. Stiassny [and others]
Amphibians : leading a life of slime / David Cannatella and David M. Hillis
Resolving reptile relationships : molecular and morphological markers / Michael S.Y. Lee [and others]
Phylogenetic relationships among modern birds (Neornithes) : toward an avian tree of life / Joel Cracraft [and others]
Building the mammalian sector of the tree of life : combining different data and a discussion of divergence times for placental mammals / Maureen A. O'Leary [and others]
Human origins : life at the top of the tree / Bernard Wood and Paul Constantino
The meaning of biodiversity and the tree of life / Edward O. Wilson
A tree grows in Manhattan / David B. Wake
The tree of life and the grand synthesis of biology / David M. Hillis
Immeasurable progress on the tree of life / Michael J. Donoghue
Assembling the tree of life : where we stand at the beginning of the 21st century / Joel Cracraft and Michael J. Donoghue
Proceedings of a symposium held at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, 2002
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