Authors:David M. Williams, Peter L. Forey,
Publisher: CRC Press
Keywords: systematics, volumes, special, association, milestones
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 2004-05-12
List price: $99.95
ISBN-10: 041528032X
ISBN-13: 9780415280327

Perhaps the most significant and rapid advances in systematic methods have been made during the last forty years. However, little has been written on the development and contribution of the various disciplines that impinge upon the science of systematics. The purpose of this volume is twofold. First it reviews the major issues in systematic theory and practice that have driven the working methods of systematists during the 20th century. Secondly, it takes a forward look at the issues most likely to preoccupy systematists in the immediate future.Covering historical analyses of the evolution of

Authors:Peter L. Forey, Christopher J. Humphries, Ian J. Kit
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: systematics, association, special, course, practical, cladistics
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 1993-11-25
List price: $60.00
ISBN-10: 0198577664
ISBN-13: 9780198577669

Cladistics is the method of choice for systematic classification and comparative studies in all fields of biology. In cladistics, reconstructed genealogies are based on common ancestry rather than on simple anatomical similarity and therefore effectively reveal true phylogenetic relationships. Now available in paperback, this excellent introduction to cladistics is based on the popular training course originally offered by the Systematics Association. The book surveys a wide range of topics, including the principle of parsimony, character coding and cladistic tree-building methods, tree sta

Authors:Angela E. Newton, Raymond S. Tangney,
Publisher: CRC Pre
Keywords: systematics, special, volumes, association, evolution, mosses, pleurocarpous
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 2007-04-13
List price: $157.95
ISBN-10: 0849338565
ISBN-13: 9780849338564

The shift from traditional taxonomic methods to data-oriented, analytical cladistic methodologies has led to a better understanding of biological processes and more accurate classifications for a wide range of organisms, including mosses. Pleurocarpous Mosses: Systematics and Evolution explores the impact of these methods through recent breakthroughs in research on the evolution and phylogeny of pleurocarpous mosses. This book emphasizes the use of cutting-edge analytical methods, morphological characters, and the use of morphological and molecular data in systematics. It investigates the inte

Author: Norman MacLeod
Publisher: CRC Press
Keywords: systematics, association, special, volumes, applications, theory, taxon, identification, automated, approaches
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2007-07-23
List price: $99.95
ISBN-10: 084938205X
ISBN-13: 9780849382055

The automated identification of biological objects or groups has been a dream among taxonomists and systematists for centuries. However, progress in designing and implementing practical systems for fully automated taxon identification has been frustratingly slow. Regardless, the dream has never died. Recent developments in computer architectures and innovations in software design have placed the tools needed to realize this vision in the hands of the systematics community, not several years hence, but now. And not just for DNA barcodes or other molecular data, but for digital images of organis

Authors:Robert Scotland, R. Toby Pennington,
Publisher: CRC Press
Keywords: systematics, association, special, volumes, analysis, phylogenetic, coding, characters, homology
Number of Pages: 217
Published: 2000-02-24
List price: $135.95
ISBN-10: 0748409203
ISBN-13: 9780748409204

Systematists, comparative biologists, taxonomists and evolutionary biologists all concern themselves with the evolutionary relationships between animals and plants. Homology is the principle underlying these disciplines. When looking at groups of organisms, shared positional similarities (homologues) provide the raw data from which hypotheses of common ancestry (homology) may be suggested. In order to explore the relationship between homologues (characters) and particular hypotheses of common ancestry, complex matrices are devised, where homologues are coded, allowing theories of homology to b

Authors:Juliet Brodie, Jane Lewis,
Publisher: CRC Press
Keywords: systematics, association, special, volumes, algal, future, algae, past, present, unravelling
Number of Pages: 402
Published: 2007-11-26
List price: $119.95
ISBN-10: 084937989X
ISBN-13: 9780849379895

Acting as titans in global control of the biosphere and colonizing virtually all corners of the earth, algae, extremely diverse and numerous oxygenic, photosynthetic organisms, can be major players in and drivers of environmental change. For hundreds of years, since their evolutionary origins by endosymbiosis, when a protozoan enslaved a cyanobacterium, fascinated scientists strove to uncover the mysteries of their diversity, interactions, taxonomy, and classification. Today, new molecular tools and technologies like chromatography and genetic fingerprinting reveal the innermost secrets of alg

Authors:Trevor R. Hodkinson, John A.N. Parnell,
Publisher: CRC Press
Keywords: systematics, taxa, association, special, volumes, rich, species, tree, life, taxonomy, reconstructing
Published: 2006-12-26
List price: $119.95
ISBN-10: 0849395798
ISBN-13: 9780849395796

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