Contenido más reciente ...

7 de enero de 2008

Curso básico de filogenia

Curso básico de filogenia aplicada: de la secuencia al árbol

Madrid, Junio 2008. 18 horas. Precio: 775 Euros.

PROFESORADO
Dr.José M Bautista, Dra. Susana Scönhuth, María López Andreo y Rafael González Sevilla.
Dep. de Bioquímica y Biol. Mol. IV de la Fac.de Veterinaria de la Univ. Complutense de Madrid
Dra. Annie Machordom. Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, CSIC, Madrid

OBJETIVO: Proporcionar los conocimientos teóricos y prácticos necesarios para iniciarse en las técnicas de análisis filogenético.
DIRIGIDO A: Este curso va dirigido a investigadores y técnicos de laboratorio de universidades y centros de investigación que estén interesados en la realización de análisis filogenéticos.

Informes >>>

6 de enero de 2008

Literatura reciente, 3

Ramírez, MJ (2007) Homology as a parsimony problem: a dynamic homology approach for morphological data. Cladistics 23 (6), 588–612.

"The primary data used to reconstruct phylogenies comes organized in the conceptual grid of homology correspondences, and the construction of this theory-rich grid depends in part on knowledge of relationships. This situation is not satisfactory as a conceptual system, because the evidence is not clearly delimited from the results. I explore the testing of alternative hypotheses of morphological correspondences in a quantitative cladistic context. The varying homology assessments implied by classical criteria of homology (topological equivalence, or position and connections; composition of structures, or commonality in details of construction) can be expressed as regular characters in a cladistic analysis. Doing so provides adequate transformation costs for changes in schemas of correspondences. Correspondences imply evolutionary transformations, and multiple schemas of correspondences can be compared according to the evolutionary transformations that they imply. The method is used to test the correspondences in sclerites of the male copulatory organs of spiders of the subfamily Amaurobioidinae (Arachnida, Araneae, Anyphaenidae). The correspondences of three sclerites are tested, in a data set of 93 species having one, two or three sclerites, using a simultaneous analysis of all the morphological characters. Most parsimonious trees are identified together with the correspondences they imply. Once the correspondences are integrated in the phylogenetic analysis, it is easy to evaluate the robustness of trees or decay in optimality after changes in anatomical interpretations. A Bremer support for anatomical interpretations is proposed, calculated as the increase in tree length when the specific interpretation is not used."

4 de enero de 2008

Literatura reciente, 2

Rensing, SA. et al. 2008.The Physcomitrella Genome Reveals Evolutionary Insights into the Conquest of Land by Plants. Science 4 January 2008: Vol. 319. no. 5859, pp. 64 - 69

"We report the draft genome sequence of the model moss Physcomitrella patens and compare its features with those of flowering plants, from which it is separated by more than 400 million years, and unicellular aquatic algae. This comparison reveals genomic changes concomitant with the evolutionary movement to land, including a general increase in gene family complexity; loss of genes associated with aquatic environments (e.g., flagellar arms); acquisition of genes for tolerating terrestrial stresses (e.g., variation in temperature and water availability); and the development of the auxin and abscisic acid signaling pathways for coordinating multicellular growth and dehydration response. The Physcomitrella genome provides a resource for phylogenetic inferences about gene function and for experimental analysis of plant processes through this plant's unique facility for reverse genetics."

Archivo del Blog

Notificación de contenido nuevo

Ingrese su correo electrónico:

Reciba las noticias en su correo electrónico mediante FeedBurner

Reciba las noticias de Filogenetica.org en:

Follow Filogeneticaorg on Twitter
Siguenos en Facebook

-


Seguidores

Comenta en Facebook

Lo más reciente en el blog de Morfometría Geométrica