Species Tree Inference: A Guide to Methods and Applications

By: Paul D. Blischak and Jeremy M. Brown and Zhen Cao and Alison Cloutier and Kerry Cobb and Alexandria A. DiGiacomo and Deren A. Eaton and Scott V. Edwards and Kyle A. Gallivan and Daniel J. Gates and Phil Grayson and Xinhao Liu and Patrick F. McKenzie and Siavash Mirarab and Erin Molloy and Genevieve G. Mount and Luay Nakhleh and Jamie R. Oaks and Huw A. Ogilvie and James B. Pease and Diana Pilson and Timothy B. Sackton and Stacey D. Smith and Stephen A. Smith and Claudia Solís-Lemus and David L. Swofford and Coleen E. Thompson and Emiko M. Waight and Joseph F. Walker and Tandy Warnow and Ellen I. Weinheimer and James C. Wilgenbusch and Andrea D. Wolfe and Zhi Yan

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Synopsis: An up-to-date reference book on phylogenetic methods and applications for evolutionary biologistsThe increasingly widespread availability of genomic data is transforming how biologists estimate evolutionary relationships among organisms and broadening the range of questions that researchers can test in a phylogenetic framework. Species Tree Inference brings together many of today’s leading scholars in the field to provide an incisive guide to the latest practices for analyzing multilocus sequence data.This wide-ranging and authoritative book gives detailed explanations of emerging new approaches and assesses their strengths and challenges, offering an invaluable context for gauging which procedure to apply given the types of genomic data and processes that contribute to differences in the patterns of inheritance across loci. It demonstrates how to apply these approaches using empirical studies that span a range of taxa, timeframes of diversification, and processes that cause the evolutionary history of genes across genomes to differ.By fully embracing this genomic heterogeneity, Species Tree Inference illustrates how to address questions beyond the goal of estimating phylogenetic relationships of organisms, enabling students and researchers to pursue their own research in statistically sophisticated ways while charting new directions of scientific discovery.