A project containing information about the diversity of organisms on Earth, their history, and characteristics. The information is linked together in the form of the evolutionary tree that connects all organisms to each other.
http://tolweb.org/
Simple program for displaying phylogenies.
http://taxonomy.zoology.gla.ac.uk/rod/treeview.html
| Introduction to Cladistics |
Cladistics is a particular method of hypothesizing relationships among organisms based on the idea that members of a group share a common evolutionary history.
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/clad/clad1.html
| Current taxonomy of the rhizobia |
This page provides the most up-to-date taxonomy on a group of bacteria known as rhizobia. This is important in a field where genus and species names have changed rapidly.
http://www.rhizobia.co.nz/Rhizobia_Taxonomy.html
| Joe Felsenstein's list of phylogeny programs |
Probably the most comprehensive
http://evolution.genetics.washington.edu/phylip/software.htm
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| The Compleat Cladist: A Primer of Phylogenetic Procedures |
A book about the basics of cladistics in PDF-format.
http://www.amnh.org/learn/pd/fish_2/pdf/compleat_cladist.pdf
Multiple sequence alignments, for both Windows (3.1, NT on Intel and Alpha chips) and Macintosh. Based on pattern-matching algorithms that attempt to identify blocks of local alignment similarity, rather than on the common Needleman and Wunsch global alignment algorithm.
ftp://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/macaw/
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