Molecular Phylogenetics
Molecular
Basis of Molecular Phylogenies
Overview
Phylogenetics Definitions
Phylogenetics
Genetic Variation and Evolution
Genetic
Source of Information for Phyogenetic Analyses
Source
Molecules As Documents of Evolutionary History
Molecules
Morphology vs. Molecules
Morphology
Molecular Tools
Molecular
Molecular Data
Molecular
Which Gene to Use?
Which
Applications of Molecular Phylogenetics
Applications
Molecular Phylogenetics
Molecular
Basis of Phylogenetics
Phylogenetics Definitions field of biology which does deal with identifying and field identifying understanding the evolutionary relationships among the many different kinds of life on earth, both living (extant) living dead (extinct) dead procedures for constructing procedures evolutionary trees a phylogeny describe the phylogeny historical relationships among lineages or organisms or their parts (genes) using trees to test hypotheses using Molecular Phylogenetics
Molecular
Basis of Phylogenetics
The Evolution of Species or Genes
Modeled as a Bifurcating Process
Can
be
two populations become reproductively isolated and two diverge due to random mutational processes over time, this process may repeat itself, so that at any time, over each population can be said to be most closely-related each to some other population with which it shares a direct common ancestor
If genomes evolve the by accumulation of mutations the amount of nucleotide sequence difference between a the amount pair of genomes should indicate how recently those two how genomes shared a common ancestor
Molecular Phylogenetics
Molecular
Basis of Phylogenetics
Phylogenetic Divergence consists of changes in characters, such as amino acids in a consists changes protein, or nucleotides in DNA the the
longer two populations remain reproductively isolated, more divergence will occur
Given the existence of