Bromham: Reading the Story in DNA 
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Chapter 7
Tree of life
Or: how do I construct a phylogeny?
Case study 7.2 - Non-tree-like flowers: horizontal gene transfer between parasitic plants and their hosts
You can find the alignments and phylogenies from this study on TreeBase Study Accession S1177
www.treebase.org
Heroes of the genetic revolution 7 - Joe Felsenstein
Interview with Joe Felsenstein on:
http://blindscientist.genedrift.org/2007/04/19/sciview-scientific-interviews-part-1/ (SciView: scientific interviews, part 1 April 19th, 2007).
TechBox 7.2 - Maximum likelihood
There is an excellent introduction to maximum likelihood estimation (as a general procedure, rather than specifically for phylogenetics), that requires no previous knowledge of statistics, written by Shaun Purcell and available on:
http://statgen.iop.kcl.ac.uk/bgim/mle/sslike_1.html
TechBox 7.3 - Bayesian phylogenetics
MrBayes is a freely downloadable program for Bayesian Inference of phylogeny, complete with a useful manual and wiki FAQs:
http://mrbayes.scs.fsu.edu/
Further information
Many of Ernst Haeckel’s iconic images are available online:
http://caliban.mpiz-koeln.mpg.de/~stueber/haeckel/kunstformen/natur.html
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