phylogenetics
English
WOTD – 9 March 2006
Etymology
phylogenetic + -ics.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌfaɪləd͡ʒəˈnɛtɪks/
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Noun
phylogenetics (uncountable)
- (biology, systematics) The study of the evolutionary history and relationships among or within groups of organisms, through computational methods that focus on observed heritable traits.
- c. 1899, George Baur’s Life and Writings, “The American Naturalist”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 33, page 16:
- Thereupon he went to Leipzig, and during the winter of 1880–81 and the following summer semester studied comparative anatomy with Leuckart, geology with Credner, and phylogenetics with Carus.
- 2005, Stephen Bryant, Gerard Bouffard, Bioinformatics, Wiley, page 366,
- An especially concise introduction to molecular phylogenetics is provided by Hillis et al. (1993).
- The danger of generating incorrect results is inherently greater in computational phylogenetics than in many other fields of science.
- 2011, Emmanuel Paradis, Analysis of Phylogenetics and Evolution with R, Springer, page vii,
- A difficult task was to review the development of the many new packages contributing to phylogenetics and evolutionary biology.
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Derived terms
- cultural phylogenetics
Related terms
- phylogenetic
- phylogenesis
- phylogeny
Translations
study of organism relationships
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Further reading
Computational phylogenetics on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - Comparative method on Wikipedia.Wikipedia