Reconstructing phylogenetic trees from DNA sequences has become a popular exercise in
many branches of biology, and here the well-known geneticist John Avise explains why …

Animal life, now and over the past half billion years, is incredibly diverse. Describing and
understanding the evolution of this diversity of body plans-from vertebrates such as humans …

The past two decades have seen revolutionary progress in our ability to reconstruct
phylogenetic relationships and classify living things, thanks to improved methods of …

DNA can be extracted and sequenced from a diverse range of biological samples, providing
a vast amount of information about evolution and ecology. The analysis of DNA sequences …

Accessing data from the genomes of organisms (individual genes) and analyzing these data
using sophisticated alignment and phylogenetic methods led to the expectation that we …

Molecular phylogenetics was born in the middle of the 20th century, when the advent of
protein and DNA sequencing offered a novel way to study the evolutionary relationships …

Molecular approaches have opened new windows on a host of ecological and evolutionary
disciplines, ranging from population genetics and behavioral ecology to conservation …

Evolution is happening all around us. In many cases–lately, due to technological advances
in molecular biology–scientists can now describe the evolutionary process in exquisite …

Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Biology, Four Volume Set is the definitive go-to reference in
the field of evolutionary biology. It provides a fully comprehensive review of the field in an …

The animal world is immensely diverse, and our understanding of it has been greatly
enhanced by analysis of DNA and the study of evolution and development ('evo-devo'). In …