Assembling the Tree of Life
Published on 12. August 2004
Book
Hardback
592 pages
978-0-19-517234-8 (ISBN)
Description
This edited volume is provides an authoritative synthesis of knowledge about the history of life. All the major groups of organisms are treated, by the leading workers in their fields. With sections on: The Importance of Knowing the Tree of Life; The Origin and Radiation of Life on Earth; The Relationships of Green Plants; The Relationships of Fungi; and The Relationships of Animals. This book should prove indispensable for evolutionary biologists, taxonomists, ecologists interested in biodiversity, and as a baseline sourcebook for organismic biologists, botanists, and microbiologists. An essential reference in this fundamental area.
Reviews / Votes
Assembling the Tree of Life should also meet the editors' larger goal. It will help the systematic community aspire toward a common goal, identify priorities for future coordinated work, and mobilize our resources. Science, Vol 307, 4 February 2005.More details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Indispensable for evolutionary biologists, taxonomists, ecologist interested in biodiversity, and a baseline sourcebook for biologists, botanists, and microbiologists
Illustrations
numerous halftones and line illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 286 mm
Width: 221 mm
Thickness: 36 mm
Weight
1733 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-517234-8 (9780195172348)
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Joel Cracraft | Michael J. Donoghue
Assembling the Tree of Life
E-Book
07/2004
1st Edition
OUP eBook
€80.49
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Persons
JOEL CRACRAFT, American Museum of Natural History and MICHAEL J. DONOGHUE Yale University
Content
Contributors
Introduction: Charting the Tree of Life
Michael J. Donoghue and Joel Cracraft:
The Importance of Knowing the Tree of Life
1: Terry L. Yates, Jorge Salazar-Bravo, and Jerry W. Dragoo: The Importance of the Tree of Life to Society
2: Rita R. Colwell: A Tangled Bank: Reflections on the Tree of Life and Human Health
3: Douglas J. Futuyma: The Fruit of the Tree of Life: Insights into Evolution and Ecology
The Origin and Radiation of Life on Earth
4: S.L. Baldauf, D. Bhattacharya, J. Cockrill, P. Hugenholtz, J. Pawlowski, and G.B. Simpson: The Tree of Life: An Overview
5: Norman R. Pace: The Early Branches in the Tree of Life
6: W. Ford Doolittle: Bacteria and Archaea
7: Herve Philippe: The Origin and Radiation of Eucaryotes
8: David P. Mindell, Joshua S. Rest, and Luis P. Villarreal: Viruses and the Tree of Life
The Relationships of Green Plants
9: Charles F. Delwiche, Robert A. Anderson, Debashish Bhattacharya, Brent D. Mishler, and Richard M. McCourt: Algal Evolution and the Early Radiation of Green Plants
10: Kathleen M. Pryer, Harald Schneider, and Susana Magallon: The Radiation of Vascular Plants
11: Pamela S. Soltis, Douglas E. Soltis, Mark W. Chase, Peter K. Endress, and Peter R. Crane: The Diversification of Flowering Plants
The Relationship of Fungi
12: John W. Taylor, Joseph Spatafora, Kerry O'Donnell, Francois Lutzoni, Timothy James, David S. Hibbett, David Geiser, Thomas D. Bruns, and Meredith Blackwell: The Fungi
The Relationships of Animals: Overview
13: Douglas J. Eernisse and Kevin J. Peterson: The History of Animals
14: Protostomes and Platyhelminthes: The Worm's Turn
D. Timothy, J. Littlewood, Maximilian J. Telford, and Rodney A. Bray:
The Relationship of Animals: Lophotrochozoans
15: Mark E. Siddall, Elizabeth Borda, and Gregory W. Rouse: Toward a Tree of Life for Annelida
16: David R. Lindberg, Winston F. Ponder, and Gerhard Haszprunar: The Mollusca: Relationships and Patterns from Their First Half-Billion Years
The Relationships of Animals: Ecdysozoans
17: Ward C. Wheeler, Gonzalo Giribet, and Gregory D. Edgecombe: Arthropod Systematics: The Comparative Study of Genomic, Anatomical, and Paleontological Information
18: Jonathan A. Coddington, Gonzalo Giribet, Mark S. Harvey, Lorenzo Prendini, and David E. Walter: Arachnida
19: Frederick R. Schram and Stefan Koenemann: Are the Crustaceans Monophyletic?
20: Rainer Willmann: Phylogenetic Relationship and Evolution of Insects
21: Michael F. Whiting: Phylogeny of the Holometabolous Insects: The Most Successful Group of Terrestrial Organisms
The Relationships of Animals: Deuterostomes
22: Andrew B. Smith, Kevin J. Peterson, Gregory Wray, and D.T. Littlewood: From Bilateral Symmetry to Pentaradiality: The Phylogeny of Hemichordates and Echinoderms
23: Timothy Rowe: Chordate Phylogeny and Development
24: M.L.J. Stiassny, E.O. Wiley, G.D. Johnson, and M.R. de Carvalho: Gnathostome Fishes
25: David Cannatella and David M. Hillis: Amphibians: Leading a Life of Slime
26: Michael S.Y. Lee, Todd W. Reeder, Joseph B. Slowinski, and Robin Lawson: Resolving Reptile Relationships: Molecular and Morphological Markers
27: 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: Phylogenetic Relationships among Modern Birds (Neornithes): Toward an Avian Tree of Life
28: Maureen A. O'Leary, Marc Allard, Michael J. Novacek, Jin Meng, and John Gatesy: Building the Mammalian Sector of the Tree of Life: Combining Different Data and a Discussion of Divergence Times for Placental Mammals
29: Bernard Wood and Paul Constantino: Human Origins: Life at the Top of the Tree
Perspectives on the Tree of Life
30: The Meaning of Biodiversity and the Tree of Life
Edward O. Wilson:
31: David B. Wake: A Tree Grows in Manhattan
32: The Tree of Life and the Grand Synthesis of Biology
David M. Hillis:
33: Michael J. Donoghue: Immeasurable Progress on the Tree of Life
34: Joel Cracraft and Michael J. Donoghue: Assembling the Tree of Life: Where We Stand at the Beginning of the 21st Century
Index
Introduction: Charting the Tree of Life
Michael J. Donoghue and Joel Cracraft:
The Importance of Knowing the Tree of Life
1: Terry L. Yates, Jorge Salazar-Bravo, and Jerry W. Dragoo: The Importance of the Tree of Life to Society
2: Rita R. Colwell: A Tangled Bank: Reflections on the Tree of Life and Human Health
3: Douglas J. Futuyma: The Fruit of the Tree of Life: Insights into Evolution and Ecology
The Origin and Radiation of Life on Earth
4: S.L. Baldauf, D. Bhattacharya, J. Cockrill, P. Hugenholtz, J. Pawlowski, and G.B. Simpson: The Tree of Life: An Overview
5: Norman R. Pace: The Early Branches in the Tree of Life
6: W. Ford Doolittle: Bacteria and Archaea
7: Herve Philippe: The Origin and Radiation of Eucaryotes
8: David P. Mindell, Joshua S. Rest, and Luis P. Villarreal: Viruses and the Tree of Life
The Relationships of Green Plants
9: Charles F. Delwiche, Robert A. Anderson, Debashish Bhattacharya, Brent D. Mishler, and Richard M. McCourt: Algal Evolution and the Early Radiation of Green Plants
10: Kathleen M. Pryer, Harald Schneider, and Susana Magallon: The Radiation of Vascular Plants
11: Pamela S. Soltis, Douglas E. Soltis, Mark W. Chase, Peter K. Endress, and Peter R. Crane: The Diversification of Flowering Plants
The Relationship of Fungi
12: John W. Taylor, Joseph Spatafora, Kerry O'Donnell, Francois Lutzoni, Timothy James, David S. Hibbett, David Geiser, Thomas D. Bruns, and Meredith Blackwell: The Fungi
The Relationships of Animals: Overview
13: Douglas J. Eernisse and Kevin J. Peterson: The History of Animals
14: Protostomes and Platyhelminthes: The Worm's Turn
D. Timothy, J. Littlewood, Maximilian J. Telford, and Rodney A. Bray:
The Relationship of Animals: Lophotrochozoans
15: Mark E. Siddall, Elizabeth Borda, and Gregory W. Rouse: Toward a Tree of Life for Annelida
16: David R. Lindberg, Winston F. Ponder, and Gerhard Haszprunar: The Mollusca: Relationships and Patterns from Their First Half-Billion Years
The Relationships of Animals: Ecdysozoans
17: Ward C. Wheeler, Gonzalo Giribet, and Gregory D. Edgecombe: Arthropod Systematics: The Comparative Study of Genomic, Anatomical, and Paleontological Information
18: Jonathan A. Coddington, Gonzalo Giribet, Mark S. Harvey, Lorenzo Prendini, and David E. Walter: Arachnida
19: Frederick R. Schram and Stefan Koenemann: Are the Crustaceans Monophyletic?
20: Rainer Willmann: Phylogenetic Relationship and Evolution of Insects
21: Michael F. Whiting: Phylogeny of the Holometabolous Insects: The Most Successful Group of Terrestrial Organisms
The Relationships of Animals: Deuterostomes
22: Andrew B. Smith, Kevin J. Peterson, Gregory Wray, and D.T. Littlewood: From Bilateral Symmetry to Pentaradiality: The Phylogeny of Hemichordates and Echinoderms
23: Timothy Rowe: Chordate Phylogeny and Development
24: M.L.J. Stiassny, E.O. Wiley, G.D. Johnson, and M.R. de Carvalho: Gnathostome Fishes
25: David Cannatella and David M. Hillis: Amphibians: Leading a Life of Slime
26: Michael S.Y. Lee, Todd W. Reeder, Joseph B. Slowinski, and Robin Lawson: Resolving Reptile Relationships: Molecular and Morphological Markers
27: 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: Phylogenetic Relationships among Modern Birds (Neornithes): Toward an Avian Tree of Life
28: Maureen A. O'Leary, Marc Allard, Michael J. Novacek, Jin Meng, and John Gatesy: Building the Mammalian Sector of the Tree of Life: Combining Different Data and a Discussion of Divergence Times for Placental Mammals
29: Bernard Wood and Paul Constantino: Human Origins: Life at the Top of the Tree
Perspectives on the Tree of Life
30: The Meaning of Biodiversity and the Tree of Life
Edward O. Wilson:
31: David B. Wake: A Tree Grows in Manhattan
32: The Tree of Life and the Grand Synthesis of Biology
David M. Hillis:
33: Michael J. Donoghue: Immeasurable Progress on the Tree of Life
34: Joel Cracraft and Michael J. Donoghue: Assembling the Tree of Life: Where We Stand at the Beginning of the 21st Century
Index