Assembling the tree of life (Oxford University Press, 2004)
Proceedings of a symposium held at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, 2002
Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction : Charting the tree of life / Michael J. Donoghue and Joel Cracraft -- The importance of the tree of life to society / Terry L. Yates, Jorge Salazar-Bravo and Jerry W. Dragoo -- A tangled bank : reflections on the tree of life and human health / Rita R. Colwell -- The fruit of the tree of life : insights into evolution and ecology / Douglas J. Futuyma -- The tree of life : an overview / S.L. Baldauf [and others] -- The early branches in the tree of life / Norman R. Pace -- Bacteria and archaea / W. Ford Doolittle -- The origin and radiation of eucaryotes / Hervé Philippe --Viruses and the tree of life / David P. Mindell, Joshua S. Rest and Luis P. Villarreal -- Algal evolution and the early radiation of green plants / Charles F. Delwiche [and others] -- The radiation of vascular plants / Kathleen M. Pryer, Harald Schneider, and Susana Magallón -- The diversification of flowering plants / Pamela S. Soltis [and others] -- The Fungi / John W. Taylor [and others] -- The history of animals / Douglas J. Eernisse and Kevin J. Peterson -- Protostomes and Platyhelminthes : the worm's turn / D. Timothy J. Littlewood, Maximilian J. Telford and Rodney A. Bray --Toward a tree of life for Annelida / Mark E. Siddall, Elizabeth Borda and Gregory W. Rouse -- The Mollusca : relationships and patterns from their first half-billion years / David R. Lindberg, Winston F. Ponder and Gerhard Haszprunar -- Arthropod systematics : the comparative study of genomic, anatomical, and paleontological information / Ward C. Wheeler, Gonzalo Giribet and Gregory D. Edgecombe -- Arachnida / Jonathan A. Coddington [and others] -- Are the crustaceans monophyletic? / Frederick R. Schram and Stefan Koenemann
Phylogenetic relationships and evolution of insects / Rainer Willmann -- Phylogeny of the holometabolous insects : the most successful group of terrestrial organisms / Michael F. Whiting -- From bilateral symmetry to pentaradiality : the phylogeny of hemichordates and echinoderms / Andrew B. Smith [and others] -- Chordate phylogeny and development / Timothy Rowe -- Gnathostome fishes / M.L.J. Stiassny [and others] -- Amphibians : leading a life of slime / David Cannatella and David M. Hillis -- Resolving reptile relationships : molecular and morphological markers / Michael S.Y. Lee [and others] -- Phylogenetic relationships among modern birds (Neornithes) : toward an avian tree of life / Joel Cracraft [and others] -- 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 [and others] -- Human origins : life at the top of the tree / Bernard Wood and Paul Constantino -- The meaning of biodiversity and the tree of life / Edward O. Wilson -- A tree grows in Manhattan / David B. Wake -- The tree of life and the grand synthesis of biology / David M. Hillis -- Immeasurable progress on the tree of life / Michael J. Donoghue -- Assembling the tree of life : where we stand at the beginning of the 21st century / Joel Cracraft and Michael J. Donoghue
Provides a synthesis of knowledge about the history of life. This work treats the major groups of organisms. It is useful for evolutionary biologists, taxonomists, ecologists interested in biodiversity, and for organismic biologists, botanists, and microbiologists