Parsimony, Phylogeny, and Genomics

Victor A. Albert is at the Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, Norway. Professor Albert's research interests lie primarily within plant evolutionary biology, including comparative genomics, evolutionary developmental biology, molecular adaptation, and phylogenetic systematics.

Preface ; 1. Parsimony and phylogenetics in the genomic age ; THE PHILOSOPHY OF PARSIMONY ANALYSIS, INCLUDING COMPARISON WITH MODEL-BASED APPROACHES ; 2. What is the rationale for 'Ockham's Razor' (a.k.a. parsimony) in phylogenetic inference? ; 3. Parsimony and its presuppositions ; PARSIMONY, CHARACTER ANALYSIS, AND OPTIMIZATION OF SEQUENCE CHARACTERS ; 4. The logic of the data matrix in phylogenetic analysis ; 5. Alignment, dynamic homology, and optimization ; 6. Parsimony and the problem of inapplicables in sequence data ; COMPUTATIONAL LIMITS OF PARSIMONY ANALYSIS: FROM HISTORICAL ASPECTS TO COMPETITION WITH FAST MODEL-BASED APPROACHES ; 7. The limits of conventional cladistic analysis ; 8. Parsimony and Bayesian phylogenetics ; MATHEMATICAL ATTRIBUTES OF PARSIMONY ; 9. Maximum parsimony and the phylogenetic information in multi-state characters ; PARSIMONY AND GENOMICS ; 10. Using phylogeny to understand genomic evolution ; 11. Dollo parsimony and reconstruction of genome evolution ; References ; Index