Parsimony and phylogenetics in the genomic age / Victor A. Albert -- What is the rationale for 'Ockham's razor' (a.k.a. parsimony) in phylogenetic inference? / Arnold G. Kluge -- Parsimony and its presuppositions / Elliott Sober -- The logic of the data matrix in phylogenetic analysis / Brent D. Mishler -- Alignment, dynamic homology, and optimization / Ward C. Wheeler -- Parsimony and the problem of inapplicables in sequence data / Jan E. De Laet -- The limits of conventional cladistic analysis / Jerrold I. Davis, Kevic C. Nixon and Damon P. Little -- Parsimony and Bayesian phylogenetics / Pablo A. Goloboff and Diego Pol -- Maximum parsimony and the phylogenetic information in multistate characters / Mike Steel and David Penny -- Using phylogeny to understand genomic evolution / David A. Liberles -- Dollo parsimony and the reconstruction of genome evolution / Igor B. Rogozin [and others]
Summary
"This book examines the potential that parsimony analysis (cladistics) summarization method has for both structural and functional comparative genomic research"--Provided by publisher
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-217) and index
