The Tree of Life

Inbunden, Engelska, 2014

Av Pablo Vargas, Rafael Zardoya, Pablo Vargas, Martin A Kayman

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Published by Sinauer Associates, an imprint of Oxford University Press. The past two decades have seen revolutionary progress in our ability to reconstruct phylogenetic relationships and classify living things, thanks to improved methods of inference and a wealth of DNA sequencing research. The Tree of Life condenses this knowledge into 44 chapters of the ultimate phylogenetic tree, providing for the first time a comprehensive overview of evolutionary relationships for the main groups of living organisms. Each chapter is authored by experts, and appropriate chapters feature these elements:*Chapter-opening evolutionary tree for each group of organisms*Genome characteristics*Phylogenetic results contrasted with previous classifications*Evolution of characters*Evolutionary tendencies*Biogeography and biodiversity*Differentiation and speciation*Open questions*Basic bibliography*Basic termsIn addition, 11 more chapters on evolution-influencing factors (e.g., symbiosis, biogeography), systematics, and phylogenetic techniques are included. This indispensable book will serve college and graduate students, university teachers, life science researchers, and other professionals who require classification in an evolutionary framework through which their own comparative biological data can be interpreted.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2014-07-23
Mått223 x 285 x 34 mm
Vikt2 097 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor713
FörlagOUP USA
ISBN9781605352299

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Pablo Vargas is Senior Scientist of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) at the Royal Botanic Garden of Madrid. His educational background includes a B.S. in Biology and an M.S. in Botany at the Complutense University (Madrid). He also earned his Ph.D. at the Royal Botanic Garden of Madrid and completed a four-year postdoctoral period in California (UC Berkeley), England (University of Reading), and Germany (University of Mainz). The postdoctoral period and current researcher position allowed specialization in plant phylogenetics. As a result, he has published over 200 scientific papers, including tree reconstructions of more than 20 angiosperm families in the last 15 years. In addition, four more books on public dissemination of plant sciences were also published in this period.Rafael Zardoya is Research Professor of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) at the National Museum of Natural Sciences in Madrid. His educational background includes a B.S. in Biology and an M.S. in Biotechnology from the University Autónoma of Madrid. He earned a Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from the University Complutense of Madrid and completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. His current research interests include: the study of higher phylogenetic relationships of several metazoan phyla, with particular emphasis on molluscs and vertebrates; the genetic basis of speciation in marine snails and their phylogeography; the molecular evolution of complete animal mitochondrial genomes and nuclear gene families; and the performance and limitations of phylogenetic methods in a genomic context.

Presentation.- Preface, Francisco Ayala.- Prologue, Michael J. Donoghue.- Introduction.- 1. Systematics: Charting the Tree of Life; Fredrik Ronquist.- 2. Great Domains: Archaea, Bacteria, and Eucarya; David Moreira.- 3. Archaea and Bacteria: The Prokaryotic Cell Organization; Ramón Rosselló and Josefa Antón.- 4. The Domain Eucarya: The Rise of Organisms with Nucleated Cells; Guifré Torruella, David Moreira, and Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo.- 5. The Former 'Protists': Amoebozoa, Rhizaria, Excavata, Haptophyta, Cryptophyta, Heterokonta, and Alveolata; Naiara Rodríguez-Ezpeleta, David Moreira, and Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo.- 6. Plants: Origin of Glaucophytes and Rhodophytes, before Land Plant Diversification; Adrian Reyes-Prieto.- 7. Chlorobionts: Ancestors of Land Plants; Francisco F. Pedroche.- 8. Embryophytes: Early Land Plants; Josep A. Rosselló.- 9. Tracheophytes: Land Conquest by Vascular Plants; Virginia Valcárcel and Pablo Vargas.- 10. Ferns: Vascular Plants that Reproduce by Spores; Santiago Pajarón and Emilia Pangua.- 11. Conifers: The Most Diverse Group of Seed Plants; David S. Gernandt and Alejandra Vázquez Lobo.- 12. Angiosperms: Plants with Flowers that Produce Fruits; Pablo Vargas.- 13. Monocotelydons: Great Diversity of an Ancient Angiosperm Lineage; Modesto Luceño and Santiago Martín-Bravo.- 14. Eudicotyledons: The Greatest Flower Diversity in Angiosperms; Susana Magallón and Pablo Vargas.- 15. Fungi: Hyperdiversity Closer to Animals than to Plants; Ana Crespo, Pradeep K. Divakar, and H. Thorsten Lumbsch.- 16. Metazoans: The Rise of Early Animals; Manuel Maldonado.- 17. Eumetazoans: The Rise of Tissue and Guts; André C. Morandini and Mónica Medina.- 18. Bilaterians: The Evolutionary Advantage of Being Two-sided; Marta Riutort, Jordi Paps, and Iñaki Rúiz-Trillo.- 19. Protostomes: The Greatest Animal Diversity; Gonzalo Giribet.- 20. Spiralians: Animals with Spiral Cleavage and Their Relatives; Gonzalo Giribet.- 21. Molluscs: Diversity of Shells and Soft Bodies; Cristina Grande and Rafa Zardoya.- 22. Annelids: Segmented Worms; M. Teresa Aguado, María Capa, Alejandro Oceguera-Figueroa, and Greg W. Rouse.- 23. Platyhelminthes: Are Flatworms Simple or Simplified?; Marta Riutort.- 24. Ecdysozoans: The Molting Animals; Noemí Guil and Gonzalo Giribet.- 25. Nematodes: The Ubiquitous Roundworms; Alfonso Navas.- 26. Panarthropods: Arthropods and Their Closest Relatives; Gustavo Hormiga and Jesús Ballesteros Chávez.- 27. Chelicerates: The Eight-Legged Colonization of Land; Miquel Arnedo and Carles Ribera.- 28. Mandibulates: Arthropods with Mandibles; Marcos Pérez-Losada.- 29. Hexapods: Insects and Closely Related Groups; Ignacio Ribera.- 30. Odonates: Dragonflies and Damselflies; Adolfo Cordero. 31. Orthopterans: Grasshoppers and Katydids, the First Singers on Earth; Mario García-París.- 32. Hemipterans: The Largest Hemimetabolous Insect Order; Dora Aguin Pombo and Thierry Bourgoin.- 33. Coleopterans: Beetles; Ignacio Ribera and Rolf G. Beutel.- 34. Hymenopterans: Ants, Bees, Wasps, and the Majority of Insect Parasitoids; Jose L. Nieves Aldrey and Mike Sharkey.- 35. Dipterans: Two-winged Flies; David Yeates and Dalton de Souza Amorim.- 36. Lepidopterans: Butterflies and Moths; Roger Vila.- 37. Deuterostomes: The Ancestry of Vertebrates; José Castresana.- 38. Echinoderms: Reinventing Radial Symmetry; Samuel Zamora, Patricio Domínguez and Pablo Vargas.- 39. Chordates: The Acquisition of an Axial Backbone; Stéphanie Bertrand and Héctor Escrivá.- 40. Actinopterygians: The Extraordinary Diversity of Ray-Finned Fishes; Ignacio Doadrio and Omar Domínguez-Domínguez.- 41. Sarcopterygians: The Rise of Land Vertebrates; Rafael Zardoya.- 42. Amphibians: Land Conquest by Vertebrates; Diego San Mauro.- 43. Mammals: Prolific Speciation after Dinosaurs' Demise; Pablo Vargas.- 44. Sauropsids: Reptilian Relationships, including Aves; Salvador Carranza.- 45. Aves: Birds, the Living Descendants of Flying Dinosaurs; Per G. P. Ericson.- 46. Speciation; Antonio Fontdevila.- 47. Biogeography; Isabel Sanmartín.- 48. Evolution on Islands; Pablo Vargas.- 49. Evolutionary Ecology; Patrick S. Fitze.- 50. Evolution of Behavior; Patrick S. Fitze.- 51. Phylogenies and the Evolution of Development; Ehab Abouheif.- 52. Symbiosis; Andrés Moya and Amparo Latorre.- 53. Phylogenetic Techniques and Markers; Pilar Catalán and Fernando González-Candelas.- 54. Reconstruction of Phylogenetic Trees; David Posada.- 55. Analysis of Genetic Variation and Intraspecific Phylogenies; Julio Rozas and Alejandro Sánchez-Gracia.

I was impressed by this book when I first saw the edition in Spanish soon after publication in 2012. The English edition is not just a translation, however, but revised and extended to include the most recent results and information on some 'hyperdiverse' groups not included in the original Spanish edition. This is, as far as I am aware, the most comprehensive account of the diversity of life on Earth (viruses excluded) as we know it in a single volume. This book could almost be looked on as a 'coffee-table' work on the diversity of life, but it is actually something that should not only be a reference work on the shelves of biodiversity, conservation, and molecular scientists, molecular biologists, but a basic reference text for all students in the non-medical biological sciences. The modest price for such a substantial full-colour work should help this title get the wide circulation it merits.