Assembling the Tree of Life
| Otros autores o Colaboradores: | , |
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| Formato: | Libro |
| Lengua: | inglés |
| Datos de publicación: |
New York
Oxford University Press
2004
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| Notas: | ed Cracraft, Joel ed Donoghue, Michael J. |
| Descripción Física: | xiii, 576 p. : il. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-517234-8 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Charting the Tree of Life / Michael J. Donoghue and Joel Cracraft The Importance of Knowing the Tree of Life - 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 Origin and Radiation of Life on Earth - The Tree of Life: An Overview / S.L. Baldauf, D. Bhattacharya, J. Cockrill, P. Hugenholtz, J. Pawlowski, and G.B. Simpson - The Early Branches in the Tree of Life / Norman R. Pace - Bacteria and Archaea, W. Ford Doolittle - The Origin and Radiation of Eucaryotes / Herve Philippe - Viruses and the Tree of Life / David P. Mindell, Joshua S. Rest, and Luis P. Villarreal The Relationships of Green Plants - Algal Evolution and the Early Radiation of Green Plants / Charles F. Delwiche, Robert A. Anderson, Debashish Bhattacharya, Brent D. Mishler, and Richard M. McCourt - The Radiation of Vascular Plants / Kathleen M. Pryer, Harald Schneider, and Susana Magallon - The Diversification of Flowering Plants / Pamela S. Soltis, Douglas E. Soltis, Mark W. Chase, Peter K. Endress, and Peter R. Crane The Relationship of Fungi - The Fungi / John W. Taylor, Joseph Spatafora, Kerry O'Donnell, Francois Lutzoni, Timothy James, David S. Hibbett, David Geiser, Thomas D. Bruns, and Meredith Blackwell The Relationships of Animals: Overview - 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 The Relationship of Animals: Lophotrochozoans - 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 The Relationships of Animals: Ecdysozoans - Arthropod Systematics: The Comparative Study of Genomic, Anatomical, and Paleontological Information / Ward C. Wheeler, Gonzalo Giribet, and Gregory D. Edgecombe - Arachnida / Jonathan A. Coddington, Gonzalo Giribet, Mark S. Harvey, Lorenzo Prendini, and David E. Walter - Are the Crustaceans Monophyletic? / Frederick R. Schram and Stefan Koenemann - Phylogenetic Relationship and Evolution of Insects / Rainer Willmann - Phylogeny of the Holometabolous Insects: The Most Successful Group of Terrestrial Organisms / Michael F. Whiting The Relationships of Animals: Deuterostomes - From Bilateral Symmetry to Pentaradiality: The Phylogeny of Hemichordates and Echinoderms / Andrew B. Smith, Kevin J. Peterson, Gregory Wray, and D.T. Littlewood - Chordate Phylogeny and Development / Timothy Rowe - Gnathostome Fishes / M.L.J. Stiassny, E.O. Wiley, G.D. Johnson, and M.R. de Carvalho - Amphibians: Leading a Life of Slime / David Cannatella and David M. Hillis - Resolving Reptile Relationships: Molecular and Morphological Markers / Michael S.Y. Lee, Todd W. Reeder, Joseph B. Slowinski, and Robin Lawson - Phylogenetic Relationships among Modern Birds (Neornithes): Toward an Avian Tree of Life / Joel Cracraft, F. Keith Barker, Michael Braun, John Harshman, Gareth J. Dyke, Julie Feinstein, Scott Stanley, Alice Cibois, Peter Schikler, Pamela Beresford, Jaime Garcia-Moreno, Michael D. Sorenson, Tamaki Yuri, and David P. Mindell - 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, Marc Allard, Michael J. Novacek, Jin Meng, and John Gatesy - Human Origins: Life at the Top of the Tree / Bernard Wood and Paul Constantino Perspectives on the Tree of Life - 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