Mark Blaxter's teaching pages

Zoology & Evolutionary Biology Honours

ARTHROPOD CORE COURSE:

Arthropod Phylogenetics

Powerpoint slides from the two lectures (full version)

The best book on Arthropod Relationships is a volume of the same name in the Systematics Association series edited by Fortey and Thomas (1998) but its a little out of date (obviously).

The papers to look at are
Jones, M., and Blaxter, M. (2005). Evolutionary biology: animal roots and shoots. Nature 434, 1076-1077.
Blaxter, M. (2001). Evolutionary biology. Sum of the arthropod parts. Nature 413, 121-122.
Nardi, F., Spinsanti, G., Boore, J.L., Carapelli, A., Dallai, R., and Frati, F. (2003). Hexapod origins: monophyletic or paraphyletic? Science 299, 1887-1889.
Aguinaldo, A.M.A., Turbeville, J.M., Linford, L.S., Rivera, M.C., Garey, J.R., Raff, R.A., and Lake, J.A. (1997). Evidence for a clade of nematodes, arthropods and other moulting animals. Nature 387, 489-493.

EVOLUTION CORE COURSE

Molecular Methods for Phylogenetics

Lecture 1 and 2: Molecular methods in phylogenetics (PDF)

For those who did not do EEG3 last year, or who did and have but a hazy recollection of what Andy Leigh-Brown taught you re molecular and other phylogenetics, I have copied the relevant 2 lectures from his course here: Lecture 1 Lecture 2 (both PDFs)

See also the glossary of phylogenetic jargon.

Lectures 3 and 4 "workshop" (PDF | precis on Bayesian Inference)

Papers discussed in the workshop:

Nardi et al 2004 (paper | supplementary materials)

Delsuc et al comment on Nardi

Nardi et al response to Delsuc's comment

Cook et al 2005: mutual paraphyly

Additional Information

Glossary of phylogenetics terms

What molecule or method to use for molecular phylogenetics?