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Cladistics: A Practical Primer on CD-ROM
Peter William Skelton, Andrew Benjamin Smith, Neale Monks
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Abstract
Introduction Part I. First Principles: 1.1 Reconstructing evolutionary history from observed differences 1.2 Parsimony and tree construction Part II. Characters and Homology: 2.1 Homology and homoplasy 2.2 Homology in molecular data 2.3 Character definition 2.4 Weighting Part III. Cladograms and Trees: 3.1 Rooting procedures and character polarity 3.2 Cladograms, phylograms, and phylogenetic trees 3.3 Monophyly, paraphyly, and polyphyly 3.4 Consensus trees Part IV. Fit and Robustness: 4.1 Measuring goodness of fit 4.2 Tests of robustness Part V. Practical Exercise: 5.1 Phylogenetic analysis of eight species of sea-urchins 5.2 Cladistic analysis of morphological characters 5.3 Cladistic analysis of molecular characters 5.4 Comparison of results and conclusions.