Entomology/Genetics 606

Quantitative Phylogenetics

Spring 2008


Powerpoints from Lectures:


Lecture 1. Introduction to Phylogenetics

Lecture 2. Homology and Sequence Alignment

Lecture 3. Methods for Parsimony Searches

Lecture 4 (given in Lab period). Consensus Trees and New Technology Search Methods

Lecture 5. Character optimization and measures of character quality

Lecture 6. Phenetics: measures of distance and association

Lecture 7. Phenetics: clustering methods.

Lecture 8. Maximum Likelihood: Models and Model-Testing

Lecture 9. Maximum Likelihood Methods

Lecture 10. Assessing Results

Lecture 11. Bayesian Inference Methods

Lecture 12. Multiple Data Partitions

Lecture 13. Amino Acids

Lecture 14. Comparative Methods I

Lecture 15. Comparative Methods II

Lecture 16. Molecular Clocks

Lecture 17. Comparing Topologies

Lecture 18. Other ML algorithms

Lecture 19. Large Analyses Revisited