Perspectives on the Phylogenetic Tree
This text discusses limitations to the classic model, horizontal gene transfer, genome fusion and eukaryote evolution, web and network models, and ring of life models.
Topics
- analogy
- basal taxon
- binomial nomenclature
- branch point
- cladistics
- class
- eukaryote-first hypothesis
- family
- gene transfer agent
- GTA
- genome fusion
- genus
- horizontal gene transfer
- HGT
- kingdom
- ma
- ximum parsimony
- mitochondria-first hypothesis
- molecular systematics
- monophyletic group
- nucleus-first hypothesis
- order
- phylogenetic tree
- phylogeny
- phylum
- polytomy
- ring of life
- rooted
- shared ancestral character
- shared derived character
- sister taxa
- systematics
- taxon
- taxonomy
- web of life
- eukaryote evolution
- eukaryote HGT
- evolutionary relationships
- James Lake
- lateral gene transfer
- network model
- phylogenetic model
- prokaryote HGT
- ring model
- tree of life
- web model
- W. Ford Doolittle
- evolution