Phylogenetic supertrees : combining information to reveal the tree of life New uses for old phylogenies : an introduction to the volume Olaf R.P. Bininda Emonds The MRP method Bernard R. Baum and Mark A. Ragan An assessment of matrix representation with compatibility in supertree construction Howard A. Ross and Allen G. Rodrigo MRF supertrees G. Gordon Burleigh ... [et al.] Everything you always wanted to know about average consensus and more François Joseph Lapointe and Claudine Levasseur Tangled trees from multiple markers : reconciling conflict between phylogenies to build molecular supertrees James Cotton and Roderic R.M. Page Supertree methods for ancestral divergence dates and other applications David Bryant Charles Semple and Mike Steel Supertree algorithms for nested taxa Philip Daniel and Charles Semple Quartet supertrees Raul Piaggio Talice J. Gordon Burleigh and Oliver Eulenstein Bayesian supertrees Fredrik Ronquist John Huelsenbeck and Tom Britton Some desiderata for liberal supertrees Mark Wilkinson ... [et al.] Taxonomy supertrees and the tree of life Roderic D.M. Page Garbage in garbage out : data issues in supertree construction Olaf R.P. Bininda Emonds ... [et al.] Reconstructing divergence times for supertrees : a molecular approach Rutger Vos and Arne Ø. Mooers Performance of supertree methods on various data set decompositions Usman Roshan ... [et al.] Unrooted supertrees : limitations traps and phylogenetic patchworks Sebastian Böcker The cladistics of matrix representation with parsimony analysis Harold N. Bryant A critique of matrix representation with parsimony supertrees John Gatesy and Mark S. Springer Supertrees components and three item data David M. Williams A molecular supertree of the Artiodactyla Annette S. Mahon Supertrees : using complete phylogenies in comparative biology John L. Gittleman Kate E. Jones and Samantha A. Price Using supertrees to investigate species richness in grasses and flowering plants Nicolas Salamin and T. Jonathan Davies Detecting diversification rate variation in supertrees Brian R. Moore Kai M.A. Chan and Michael J. Donoghue