Cao et al. (2000) Gene Phylogeny of Mammals a good example where molecular sequences have led to a big improvement of our understanding of evolution.
1 Dan Graur Methods of Tree Reconstruction. 2 3.
Distance matrix methods calculate a measure of distance between each pair of species, then find a tree that predicts the observed set of distances.
Lecture 25 - Phylogeny Based on Chapter 23 - Molecular Evolution Copyright © 2010 Pearson Education Inc.
1 Dan Graur Molecular Phylogenetics. 2 3 4 5 6 Molecular phylogenetic approaches: 1. distance-matrix (based on distance measures) 2. character-state.
Methods of Tree Reconstruction
Molecular Phylogenetics