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040 _aGCL
082 _a570
_bWHE
100 1 _aWheeler, Ward
245 1 _aSystematics :
_ba Course of Lectures /
_cWard C. Wheeler
260 _aHoboken,
_bJohn Wiley & Sons,
_c2012.
300 _a460 pages :
_billustrations ;
_c25 cm
336 _atext
_2txt
_brdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2 rdamedia
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
504 _aIncludes bibliography and index.
520 _aSystematics: A Course of Lectures is designed for use in an advanced undergraduate or introductory graduate level course in systematics and is meant to present core systematic concepts and literature. The book covers topics such as the history of systematic thinking and fundamental concepts in the field including species concepts, homology, and hypothesis testing. Analytical methods are covered in detail with chapters devoted to sequence alignment, optimality criteria, and methods such as distance, parsimony, maximum likelihood and Bayesian approaches. Trees and tree searching, consensus.
650 _aBiology
942 _2ddc
999 _c1120
_d1120