Phylogenetic Analysis of DNA Sequences

'This book captures the excitement that the increasing availability of DNA sequence data is bringing to the study of systematics ... I enjoyed the book. I learnt a great deal from it and would recommend it as a useful reference and entrance to the literature. It should be mentioned that the chapters were all peer-reviewed, and the standards of writing and presentation are both high.'B.S. Weir, North Carolina State University, Journal of Classification 10 (1993)

• 1. Phylogenetic inference, DNA sequence analysis, and the future of molecular systematics ; 2. DNA sequencing: strategy and methods to directly sequence large DNA molecules ; 3. The application of automated DNA sequence analysis to phylogenetic studies ; 4. Computer alignment of sequences ; 5. Aligning DNA sequences: homology and phylogenetic weighting ; 6. Relative efficiencies of different tree-making methods for molecular data ; 7. Compositional statistics evaluated by computer simulations ; 8. Weighted parsimony: does it work? ; 9. Testing the theory of descent ; 10. Parsimony and phylogenetic inference using DNA sequences: some methodological strategies ; 11. Evolutionary analysis of length-variable sequences: divergent domains of robosomal RNA ; 12. Statistical methods for testing molecular phylogenies ; 13. Discriminating between phylogenetic signal and random noise in DNA sequences ; 14. When are phylogeny estimates from morphological and molecular data incongruent? ; 15. Congruence among data sets: a Bayesian approach