Acrobeles complexus

Mark Blaxter's teaching pages

@ The Blaxter Lab, Institute of Evolutionary Biology, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Edinburgh

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Phylogenetics

Tools and Resources
How-Tos and Best-Practice

This set of links and sites aims to offer a resource for researchers and students who wish to know what sorts of phylogenetics methods are available, what ones they should or could use, and how to carry out phylogenetic analysis.

Richard Challis' "Bayesian Miniconference"
An introduction to Bayesian Phylogenetic Reconstruction

TreeSurgery: A Beginner's Guide (pdf of poster)
Martin Jones' handout from the "Bayesian Invasion" Conference feedback

Phylogenetic Glossary and Acronym Expansion
[this is a very old one currently, based on MLB's 2004 lectures to Zoo4]

Other resources:

• Mark Blaxter's Honours lectures on phylogenetics

• Martin Jones' "TaxMan" system for assembling large-scale datasets for molecular phylogenetics

• some useful scripts and tools for keeping phylogenetic analysis simple [pending]

 
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Brugia malayi

The human-parasitic filarial nematode Brugia malayi.
Filarial nematodes are tissue and gut parasites of a wide range of vertebrates, including humans. This species causes human elephantiasis, affecting over 20 million people. See NEMBASE4 for analyses of ESTs from this parasite and many other nematodes.

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