The branching pattern of ancestor–descendant relationships among "taxa" (eg, species or their genes) is called a "phylogeny." "Phylogenetics" is the process of attempting to estimate these historical relationships by examining information such as DNA, protein sequences, or morphological (shape) characters from extant taxa. This information is generally presented using a mathematical tree – a structure used to describe the evolutionary history of the taxa at a high level. These trees come in several different varieties and can be inferred in several different ways. There is a great amount of effort being put into methods of estimating trees, as well as determining particular phylogenies for species of interest.

Item Type:	Research Book Chapter
Keywords:	Bayesian statistics; Likelihood; Network; Parsimony; Phylogeny; Tree
Research Division:	Biological Sciences
Research Group:	Genetics
Research Field:	Genetics not elsewhere classified
Objective Division:	Expanding Knowledge
Objective Group:	Expanding knowledge
Objective Field:	Expanding knowledge in the biological sciences
UTAS Author:	Charleston, M (Professor Michael Charleston)
ID Code:	110612
Year Published:	2017
Deposited By:	Mathematics and Physics
Deposited On:	2016-08-05
Last Modified:	2020-05-20
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