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系统发生学与进化生物学杂志

Phylogenetics: Tracing the Evolutionary Legacy of Organisms, Metastatic Clones, Bioactive Compounds and Languages

Abstract

Felix B

Since its inception seventy-five years ago, the field of phylogenetics has steadily been expanding to contribute in a number of scientific fields including biogeography, medicinal chemistry, forensics, transcriptomics, cancer biology and even linguistics, in addition to systematic biology -for which it was originally erupted by Willi Hennig. In this invited editorial contributed to the Journal of Phylogenetics and Evolutionary Biology a big picture of this ever evolving field is expounded. Application of phylogenetic inference in biosystematics, phylogeography, phylogenetic selection of target taxa in medicinal chemistry, cancer phylogenetics, and linguistic phylogeny are reviewed with a personal perspective summarizing contribution to this interdisciplinary field from my group. Parametric methods such as Maximum Likelihood and Bayesian Inference have dramatically improved for last one decade, yet empirical solutions to some of the most fundamental issues, including homoplasmy and lineage sorting, remains to be materialized.

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