Phylogeny

Treebuilding methods that generate lots of trees

• Bootstrap
• Bayesian

Visual simulations of models of sequence evolution

• Jukes-Cantor
• Kimura 2P
• HKY85

Exercises

• Newick tree descriptions
• Make a tree from some DNA sequences
• Compare trees for same species based on different genes
• Build tree for "flytrap" dataset
• Introduction to PAUP

External links

• BLAST
• Open Tree of Life
• Lifemap
• PAUP*