Genetics and Evolution IB 201 06 Lecture 3 I General Information about Trees I Historical Sketch Early before Darwin tree diagrams usually represented the great chain of being from the smallest cells progressing up the chain to man considered the top of the chain the pinnacle of evolution After Darwin trees were likely to reflect the descent from common ancestor concept e g Darwins tree Haeckel s tree A century later the rules for quantitative rigorous reconstruction of trees developed W Hennig s rules J Farris maximum parsimony algorithm J Felsenstein s maximum likelihood method This led to the view that Classifications should be based on the strict interpretation of phylogeny Nested hierarchies of monophyletic groups II Rules for Recognizing Groups in Classifications 1 Recognize only monophyletic groups in classifications Monophyly 2 Corollary Reject paraphyletic and polyphyletic groups Paraphyly Polyphyly Examples Cartoon monophyly paraphyly polyphyly Examples Real 1 III Reading Trees Rotating branches Swapping branches o exponential increase in possible number of trees as taxa are added Parentheses to represent trees Dichotomous branching Polytomies e g trichotomous branching 1 Soft polytomy 2 Hard polytomy 3 Star phylogeny 2 Rooted vs Unrooted trees exercises in class Diagonal cladograms vs horizontal cladograms vs phylograms Refs General Page RD and EC Holmes 1998 Molecular Evolution A Phylogenetic Approach Blackwell Science Oxford F H pp 549 558 567 top 571 3
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