10.6084/M9.FIGSHARE.13096397.V1
Rosario Mata-López
América Nitxin Castañeda-Sortibrán
Erick Alejandro García-Trejo
Magali Blanca Isabel Honey-Escandón
María Berenit Mendoza Garfias
Iliana Paola Cervantes Cervantes-Aguilar
Sistemática Molecular y Bioinformática: Guía Práctica. Parte 1
The current phylogenetic systematics comprises a “hard core” of fundamental concepts, together with several methods based on different optimality criteria such as parsimony, maximum likelihood and Bayesians that allow the analysis of molecular data. The resulting phylogenetic hypotheses modify the previous classifications, sometimes suggesting traditionally unthinkable relationships and, in turn, allow the analysis of different evolutionary processes and patterns. Training to understand and use these methods properly is not without its difficulties. Although the students of the second semester of the Bachelor's Degree in Biology taught at the Faculty of Sciences of the UNAM learn the rudiments of systematic phylogenetics, they have yet to explicitly incorporate molecular tools. The Bioinformatics and Molecular Systematics Practice Guide, whose coordinators kindly invited me to preface, is intended to fill this gap. In more than 50 practices, this guide allows you to learn how to retrieve information from databases, download and manipulate sequences, identify species included in complexes of cryptic species, date lineages using molecular clocks or carry out different biogeographic analyzes. In a simple and didactic way, students will be able to carry out practices that allow them to understand molecular tools. In addition, for each of the sections in which the guide is organized there are clear and well structured theoretical introductions.
Evolutionary Biology
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2020
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