New Uses for New Phylogenies

1. What this book is about ; 2. New phylogenies: an introductory look at the coalescent ; 3. Genealogies and geography ; 4. The coalescent process and background selection ; 5. Inferring population history from molecular phylogenies ; 6. Applications of intraspecific phylogenetics ; 7. Inferring phylogenies from DNA sequence data: the effects of sampling ; 8. Uses for evolutionary trees ; 9. Cross-species transmission and recombination of 'AIDS' viruses ; 10. Using interspecies phylogenies to test macroevolutionary hypotheses ; 11. Using phylogenetic trees to reconstruct the history of infectious disease epidemics ; 12. Relating geographic patterns to phylogenetic processes ; 13. Uses of molecular phylogenies for conservation ; 14. Testing the time axis of phylogenies ; 15. Comparative evolution of larval and adult life-history stages and small subunit ribosomal RNA amongst post-Palaeozoic echinoids ; 16. Molecular phylogenies and host-parasite cospeciation: gophers and lice as a model system ; 17. A microevolutionary link, between phylogenies and comparative data ; 18. Comparative test of evolutionary lability and rats using molecular phylogenies ; 19. Community evolution in Greater Antilean anolis lizards: phylogenetic patterns and experimental tests ; 20. The evolution of body plans: HOM/Hox cluster evolution, model systems, and the importance of phylogeny.