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Molecular Systematics & Evolution of Microorganisms

Character evolution

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Table of Contents
  1. Introduction to characters and parsimony analysis
  2. Character evolution
  3. Unique and unreversed characters
  4. Unique and unreversed characters - Hair
  5. Homoplasy - independent evolution
  6. Homoplasy - independent evolution - Tails
  7. Homoplasy - misleading evidence of phylogeny
  8. Homoplasy - reversal
  9. Homoplasy - a fundamental problem of phylogenetic inference
  10. Homoplasy and Incongruence
  11. Incongruence or Incompatibility
  12. Distinguishing homology and homoplasy 
  13. Congruence - 1
  14. Congruence - 2
  15. Congruence - 3
  16. Incongruence
  17. The importance of congruence
  18. Congruence - 4
  19. Homoplasy in molecular data
  20. Parsimony analysis
  21. Character Fit 
  22. Character Fit - Amniota
  23. Parsimony Analysis
  24. Parsimony in practice
  25. Results of parsimony analysis
  26. Character types - 1
  27. Character types - 2
  28. Stepmatrices
  29. Weighted parsimony
  30. Why weight characters?
  31. Different kinds of changes differ in their frequencies
  32. Think about parsimony
Author: Mark Wilkinson

Email: marw@nhm.ac.uk

Home Page: http://www.nhm.ac.uk/zoology/home/wilkinson.htm