Assembling the tree of life
By: edited by Joel Cracraft, Michael J. Donoghue.
Contributors: Cracraft, Joel.; Donoghue, Michael J.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 576
Subjects: Biology -- Classification -- Congresses; Phylogeny -- Congresses; Biology -- classification -- Congresses
Genres: Classification; Congresses.
Notes: Proceedings of a symposium held at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, 2002.

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