OEB 192 – “Evolutionary speculation constitutes a kind of metascience, which has the same intellectual fascination for some biologists that metaphysical speculation possessed for some mediaeval scholastics. It can be considered a relatively harmless habit, like eating peanuts, unless it assumes the form of an obsession; then it becomes a vice” (Stanier, 1970)
Tree of Life: primary divisions
Microbial systematics Formerly Pseudomonas (partial list): Ralstonia, Burkholderia, Hydrogenophaga, Sphingomonas, Methylobacterium, Cellvibrio, Xanthomonas, Acidovorax, Hydrogenophillus, Brevundimonas, Pandoraea
16S rRNA as phylogenetic marker Why a good molecule?
Tree of Life: three “domains” Based on 16S rRNA (Woese, 1987):
Tree of Life: three “domains” Based on 16S rRNA (Pace, 1997):
Tree basics: meaning
Tree basics: rotation
Tree basics: shape
Tree basics: character change
Key phylogenetic terms
Monday (9/14): Molecular evolution and horizontal gene transfer I.