Assembling the tree of life /
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Oxford ; New York :
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2004.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : Charting the tree of life / Michael J. Donoghue and Joel Cracraft
- The importance of the tree of life to society / Terry L. Yates, Jorge Salazar-Bravo and Jerry W. Dragoo
- A tangled bank : reflections on the tree of life and human health / Rita R. Colwell
- The fruit of the tree of life : insights into evolution and ecology / Douglas J. Futuyma
- The tree of life : an overview / S.L. Baldauf [and others]
- The early branches in the tree of life / Norman R. Pace
- Bacteria and archaea / W. Ford Doolittle
- The origin and radiation of eucaryotes / Hervé Philippe
- Viruses and the tree of life / David P. Mindell, Joshua S. Rest and Luis P. Villarreal
- Algal evolution and the early radiation of green plants / Charles F. Delwiche [and others]
- The radiation of vascular plants / Kathleen M. Pryer, Harald Schneider, and Susana Magallón
- The diversification of flowering plants / Pamela S. Soltis [and others]
- The Fungi / John W. Taylor [and others]
- The history of animals / Douglas J. Eernisse and Kevin J. Peterson
- Protostomes and Platyhelminthes : the worm's turn / D. Timothy J. Littlewood, Maximilian J. Telford and Rodney A. Bray
- Toward a tree of life for Annelida / Mark E. Siddall, Elizabeth Borda and Gregory W. Rouse
- The Mollusca : relationships and patterns from their first half-billion years / David R. Lindberg, Winston F. Ponder and Gerhard Haszprunar
- Arthropod systematics : the comparative study of genomic, anatomical, and paleontological information / Ward C. Wheeler, Gonzalo Giribet and Gregory D. Edgecombe
- Arachnida / Jonathan A. Coddington [and others]
- Are the crustaceans monophyletic? / Frederick R. Schram and Stefan Koenemann.
- Phylogenetic relationships and evolution of insects / Rainer Willmann
- Phylogeny of the holometabolous insects : the most successful group of terrestrial organisms / Michael F. Whiting
- From bilateral symmetry to pentaradiality : the phylogeny of hemichordates and echinoderms / Andrew B. Smith [and others]
- Chordate phylogeny and development / Timothy Rowe
- Gnathostome fishes / M.L.J. Stiassny [and others]
- Amphibians : leading a life of slime / David Cannatella and David M. Hillis
- Resolving reptile relationships : molecular and morphological markers / Michael S.Y. Lee [and others]
- Phylogenetic relationships among modern birds (Neornithes) : toward an avian tree of life / Joel Cracraft [and others]
- Building the mammalian sector of the tree of life : combining different data and a discussion of divergence times for placental mammals / Maureen A. O'Leary [and others]
- Human origins : life at the top of the tree / Bernard Wood and Paul Constantino
- The meaning of biodiversity and the tree of life / Edward O. Wilson
- A tree grows in Manhattan / David B. Wake
- The tree of life and the grand synthesis of biology / David M. Hillis
- Immeasurable progress on the tree of life / Michael J. Donoghue
- Assembling the tree of life : where we stand at the beginning of the 21st century / Joel Cracraft and Michael J. Donoghue.