Estimating Species Trees (eBook)

L. Lacey Knowles, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor/Associate Curator for the Museum of Zoology at the University of Michigan. Her research areas include speciation, sexual selection, phylogeography, and evolutionary radiations. Dr. Knowles was recently awarded a three-year grant by The National Science Foundation, titled "Population genetics of species delimitation: Methodology and application of a unified approach to inferring species boundaries." Laura S. Kubatko, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Statistics and Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology. Her research interests are in statistical genetics, including the estimation of phylogenetic trees from nucleotide sequence data, linkage and QTL analysis, and the analysis of microarray data. She recently became an Associate Editor for the journal Systematic Biology, and was also elected to the Council for the Society of Systematic Biology beginning in 2008.

"I do not disagree, and I therefore hope that this book will
stimulate theoreticians to become involved in exploring specific
topics in more depth and encourage empiricists to test the
available methods by using them in their own data analyses. In this
way, phylogenetics should move closer to its ultimate practical
goal of producing accurate evolutionary histories for all known
organisms." (Systematic Biology, 15 June 2011)