I just received promotional information about a new book from Garland Science publishers. "Genome Duplication; concepts, mechanisms, evolution and disease" By Melvin L DePamphilis and Stephen D Bell. Garland Science Oct 2010 ISBN: 978-0-415-44206. It sounds like a great title, especially for someone like me...
The New York Times has an article talking about constructing and especially visualizing the tree of life called "Crunching the Data for the Tree of Life". Its interesting, especially since I think it touches on many issues concerning tree size that even phylogenetic biologists haven't...
There has been discussion and research for decades into support values for phylogenetic nodes and the relative quality of different phylogenies as a whole. Here is a new and impressive (although clearly subjective) criteria for confidence in a phylogenetic tree- "I am so confident in...
