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Lecture Notes

COA 690/790 Special Topics: Introduction to Cladistics

Week 1
Course overview, basic cladistic theory, terminology, classification

Week 2
Phylogenetic data

Week 3
Finding an alignment

Weeks 4 & 5
Tree building methods: Maximum parsimony

Week 6 & 7
Tree building methods: Maximum likelihood

Weeks 8 & 9
Tree building methods: Bayesian analysis

Week 10
Tree comparison and consensus

Week 11
Tree support

Week 12
Combining datasets and incongruence

Week 13
Character tracing and character analysis

Week 14
Putting it all together: making a Figure