The Clarion- International Multidisciplinary Journal

  • Year: 2024
  • Volume: 13
  • Issue: 1and2

Unraveling the tree of life: A grand challenge for Biology.....

1Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA02138USA

Abstract

Building the Tree of Life is an ongoing activity of scientists around the world, one that combines information from both the genotype and phenotype of organisms. I review recent trends in this effort and describe a number of models, including the multispecies coalescent model, as means to achieve this end.

Keywords

Tree of Life, Genomes, Phenomes, Phylogenetic, Morphological