Course: Principles of the phylogenetic analysis

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Course title Principles of the phylogenetic analysis
Course code ZOO/PGSFA
Organizational form of instruction Lecture
Level of course Doctoral
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 5
Language of instruction Czech, English
Status of course unspecified
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Veselý Milan, doc. RNDr. Ph.D.
Course content
- Systematics, its role in biology - Phenetics, distance metrix, evolutionary systematics, cladistics - Homology, homoplasy, polarization of characters, outgroup principle, - Data, types, morphology, molecules, behaviour, sources of data - Data matrices, coding of characters - Alignment, dynamic and static methods, structural alignment - Methods in phylogenetics, parsimony, maximum likelihood, bayesian analysis - Phylogenetic trees, measures of support, consensus trees, interpretation of phylogenetic hypothesis - Dating, clocks, calibration, rate of molecular evolution - Phylogenetic methods in biogeography, reconstruction of ancestral areas, evolution of characters - Phylogenetic trees bellow species level, statistical parsimony, networks - Phylogenetic systematics, ICZN, Phylocode

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified
Learning outcomes
Prerequisites
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
Recommended literature
  • Bergsten, J. (2005). A review of long-branch attraction. Cladistics 21: 163-193.
  • Eldredge, N., and Cracraft, J. (1980). Phylogenetic patterns and the evolutionary process. New York, Columbia Univ. Press.
  • Hennig, W. (1965). Phylogenetic systematics. Annual Review of Entomology 10: 97-116.
  • Hennig, W. (1966). Phylogenetic systematics. University of Illinois Press, Urbana.
  • Hillis, D. M., Moritz, C. and Mable, B. K., (eds.). (1996). Molecular Systematics, second edition. Sinauer, Sunderland, MA.
  • Kitching, I. J., Forey, P. L., Humpheries, C. J., and Williams., D. M. (1998). Cladistics: The Theory and Practice of Parsimony Analysis. Second Edition. The Systematics Association Publication No. 11 Oxford University Press, Oxford.
  • Mayr, E. (1982). The Growth of Biological Thought. Harvard University Press.
  • Mishler, B. D. (2005). The logic of the data matrix in phylogenetic analysis. V.A. Albert (ed.), Parsimony, Phylogeny, and Genomics, pp. 57-70. Oxford University Press.
  • Nelson, G. J., and Platnick, N. I. (1981). Systematics and biogeography: cladistics and vicariance. New York, Columbia Univ. Press.
  • Sober, E. (2008). Evidence and Evolution: the logic behind the science. Cambridge University Press.
  • Stamos, D. N. (1996). Popper, falsifiability, and evolutionary biology. Biology and Philosophy 11: 161-191.
  • Wiley, E. O. (1981). Phylogenetics: The Theory and Practice of Phylogenetic Systematics.


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