Week 6: Phylogenetics (April Wright)

April Wright will be speaking to us about phylogenetics on Friday, October 4th. April is a graduate student in the Hillis lab of the Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior department. She will cover the basics of phylogenetics and touch on methods (maximum likelihood estimation, MCMC, and Bayesian) as well as model selection. 

 

Lecture Slides:  Phylogenetics.pdf

 

Resources:

Inferring Phylogenies by Joe Felsenstein

http://treethinkers.org/

https://molevol.mbl.edu/wiki/index.php/Schedule