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Title: Phylogenetics Trees Made Easy: A How-To Manual for Molecular Biologists by Barry G. Hall ISBN: 0-87893-311-5 Publisher: Sinauer Associates, Inc. Pub. Date: March, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (3 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Step-by-step instruction with downloadable input data files
Comment: What I liked about this slim book is that, as in Chapter 1, it first provides you with data files with which you can build phylogenetic trees, then guides you through step by step. Also, I liked its concise overview about phylogenetics.
However, Chapter 2 does not come with such data files. It only provides you with templates. Why?
And just in case you are not aware, you need to have PAUP installed on your computer to go through this book, and PAUP is not a free software.
Rating: 4
Summary: MrBayes and Paup* manual
Comment: I picked up this book because I was trying to learn MrBayes on my own with little success. With new versions of MrBayes, this book is already out of date and I encountered some frustration with my Nexus code being wrong, but between the help function, a lot of trial and error, and Hall's book I managed to successfully analyze my data using Bayesian analysis! I highly recommend it for the "cookbook" appeal-- software like PAUP and MrBayes can be difficult to learn on your own, and it's nice to have someone explain it step by step. I would have liked some instruction on saturation curves, but the book is fairly complete otherwise. MacClade is not mentioned, probably because it is more user-friendly than the programs included. PTME has been criticized for some incorrect statements in the book regarding theory, but I would expect students to use this book for practice more than theory. Overall, a great little manual to have on the shelf.
Rating: 5
Summary: Delivers
Comment: This book delivers what it promises. It says right on its first page that it is not a textbook on phylogetic tree building, but a "cookbook" that teaches you step by step how to build the trees with the current tools available. What I liked the most was the available downloads from the publisher's web page. You can check your results against the author's, skip a section but still get the data you would get from it so you can do the next section and get program lines for you to customize.
A simple, well written, hands-on book for us starting Evolutionary Biology types.
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Title: Inferring Phylogenies by Joseph Felsenstein ISBN: 0878931775 Publisher: Sinauer Associates, Inc. Pub. Date: 04 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $61.95 |
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Title: Molecular Evolution and Phylogenetics by Masatoshi Nei, Sudhir Kumar ISBN: 0195135857 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 15 August, 2000 List Price(USD): $64.50 |
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Title: The Phylogenetic Handbook : A Practical Approach to DNA and Protein Phylogeny by Marco Salemi, Anne-Mieke Vandamme ISBN: 052180390X Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $75.00 |
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Title: Molecular Evolution: A Phylogenetic Approach by Roderic D. M. Page, Edward C. Holmes ISBN: 0865428891 Publisher: Blackwell Science Inc Pub. Date: October, 1998 List Price(USD): $77.95 |
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Title: Phylogenic Analysis of Morphological Data by John J. Wiens ISBN: 1560988169 Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Press Pub. Date: July, 2000 List Price(USD): $28.95 |
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