ISBN : 9781605352299
The Tree of Life presents the ultimate phylogenetic tree; featuring 44 chapters each authored by experts in their field, it provides for the first time a comprehensive overview of evolutionary relationships for the main groups of living organism.
1. Systematics: Charting the Tree of Life
2. Great Domains: Archaea, Bacteria, and Eucarya
3. Archaea and Bacteria: The Prokaryotic Cell Organization
4. The Domain Eucarya: The Rise of Organisms with Nucleated Cells
5. The Former Protists: Amoebozoa, Rhizaria, Excavata, Haptophyta, Cryptophyta, Heterokonta, and Alveolata
6. Plants: Origin of Glaucophytes and Rhodophytes before Land Plant Diversification
7. Chlorobionts: The Origin and Diversification of Green Plants
8. Embryophytes: Early Land Plants
9. Tracheophytes: Land Conquest by Vascular Plants
10. Ferns: Vascular Plants That Reproduce by Spores
11. Conifers: The Most Diverse Group of Naked Seed Plants
12. Angiosperms: Plants with Flowers That Produce Fruits
13. Monocotelydons: Great Diversity of an Ancient Angiosperm Lineage
14. Eudicotyledons: The Greatest Flower Diversity in Angiosperms
15. Fungi: Hyperdiversity Closer to Animals Than to Plants
16. Metazoans: The Rise of Early Animals
17. Eumetazoans: The Emergence of Tissue and Guts
18. Bilaterians: The Evolutionary Advantage of Being Two-Sided
19. Protostomes: The Greatest Animal Diversity
20. Spiralians: Animals with Spiral Cleavage and Their Relatives
21. Molluscs: Diversity of Shells and Soft Bodies
22. Annelids: Segmented Worms
23. Platyhelminthes: Are Flatworms Simple or Simply Simplified?
24. Ecdysozoans: The Molting Animals
25. Nematodes: The Ubiquitous Roundworms
26. Panarthropods: Arthropods and Their Closest Relatives
27. Chelicerates: The Eight-Legged Colonization of Land
28. Mandibulates: Arthropods with Mandibles
29. Hexapods: Insects and Their Closely Related Groups
30. Odonates: Dragonflies and Damselflies
31. Orthopterans: Grasshoppers and Katydids, the First Singers on Earth
32. Hemipterans: The Largest Hemimetabolous Insect Order
33. Hymenopterans: Ants, Bees, Wasps, and the Majority of Insect Parasitoids
34. Coleopterans: Beetles
35. Dipterans: Two-Winged Flies
36. Lepidopterans: Butterflies and Moths
37. Deuterostomes: The Ancestry of Vertebrates
38. Echinoderms: Reinventing Radial Symmetry
39. Chordates: The Acquisition of an Axial Backbone
40. Actinopterygians: The Extraordinary Diversity of Ray-Finned Fishes
41. Sarcopterygians: The Rise of Land Vertebrates
42. Amphibians: Land Conquest by Vertebrates
43. Mammals: Proliferation of Species after Dinosaurs' Demise
44. Sauropsids: Reptilian Relationships, including Aves
45. Aves: Birds, the Living Descendants of Flying Dinosaurs
46. Speciation
47. Biogeography
48. Evolution on Islands
49. Evolutionary Ecology
50. Evolution of Behavior
51. Phylogenies and the Evolution of Development
52. Symbiosis
53. Phylogenetic Techniques and Markers
54. Reconstruction of Phylogenetic Trees
55. Analysis of Genetic Variation and Intraspecific Phylogenies