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Describes the process of classification in biology; how it has been conducted and how methods have been affected by the use of computers.
Author : Lois A. Abbott
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Page : pages
File Size : 24,42 MB
Release : 1985
Category : SCIENCE
ISBN : 9780231891653
Describes the process of classification in biology; how it has been conducted and how methods have been affected by the use of computers.
Author : Lois A. Abbott
Publisher :
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 13,17 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Biologie - Classification - Informatique
ISBN : 9780231049276
Author : L.A. Abbott
Publisher :
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 22,99 MB
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Category :
ISBN : 9788121105460
Author : Donald L.J. Quicke
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 37,91 MB
Release : 2013-03-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9401121346
Taxonomy is an ever-changing, controversial and exCitmg field of biology. It has not remained motionless since the days of its founding fathers in the last century, but, just as with other fields of endeavour, it continues to advance in leaps and bounds, both in procedure and in philosophy. These changes are not only of interest to other taxonomists, but have far reaching implications for much of the rest of biology, and they have the potential to reshape a great deal of current biological thought, because taxonomy underpins much of biological methodology. It is not only important that an ethologist. physiologist. biochemist or ecologist can obtain information about the identities of the species which they are investigating; biology is also uniquely dependent on the comparative method and on the need to generalize. Both of these necessitate knowledge of the evolutionary relationships between organisms. and it is the science of taxonomy that can develop testable phylogenetic hypotheses and ultimately provide the best estimates of evolutionary history and relationships.
Author : Trevor R. Hodkinson
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 22,9 MB
Release : 2006-12-26
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 1420009532
To document the world's diversity of species and reconstruct the tree of life we need to undertake some simple but mountainous tasks. Most importantly, we need to tackle species rich groups. We need to collect, name, and classify them, and then position them on the tree of life. We need to do this systematically across all groups of organisms and b
Author : Godfrey M. Hewitt
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 17,92 MB
Release : 2013-06-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 3642839622
Taxonomy is fundamental to understanding the variety of life forms, and exciting expansions in molecular biology are re- volutionising the obtained data. This volume reviews the ma- jor molecular biological techniques that are applied in ta- xonomy. The chapters are arranged in three main sections:1) Overviews of important topics in molecular taxonomy; 2) Case studies of the successful application of molecular methods to taxonomic and evolutionary questions; 3) Protocols for a range of generally applicable methods. The described techni- ques include DNA-DNA hybridization, DNA fingerprinting, RFLP analysis, and PCR sequencing.
Author : Judith E. Winston
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 32,17 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780231068246
A basic practical manual for the process of describing new species, this desperately needed desk reference and guide to nomenclatural procedure and taxonomic writing serves as a Strunk & White of species description, covering both botanical and zoological codes of nomenclature.
Author : Quentin D. Wheeler
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 13,98 MB
Release : 2008-04-09
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1420008560
Finalist for 2009 The Council on Botanical & Horticultural Libraries Literature Award!A Fresh Look at Taxonomy The most fundamental of all biological sciences, taxonomy underpins any long term strategies for reconstructing the great tree of life or salvaging as much biodiversity as possible. Yet we are still unable to say with any certainty how
Author : G. Dunn
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 15,33 MB
Release : 2012-04-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 0486151360
Students of mathematical biology discover modern methods of taxonomy with this text, which introduces taxonomic characters, the measurement of similarity, and the analysis of principal components. Other topics include multidimensional scaling, cluster analysis, identification and assignment techniques, more. A familiarity with matrix algebra and elementary statistics are the sole prerequisites.
Author : F. G. Priest
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 24,5 MB
Release : 1993-11-30
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780412461200
This second edition of Modern Bacterial Taxonomy has been completely revised and expanded to include detailed coverage of molecular systematics including relevant aspects of nucleic acid sequences, the construction of phylogenetic trees, typing of bacteria by restriction fragment length polymorphisms, DNA hybridization probes and the use of the polymerase chain reaction in bacterial systematics.