Quantitative Bioscience at the University of Tennessee

Quantitative Phylogenetics

Quantitative phylogenetics deals with the reconstruction of evolutionary relationships between species using morphological or molecular data. There exists a multitude of quantitative methods for phylogenetic reconstruction. These methods are applied to phylogenetic analysis with the goal to assemble a phylogenetic tree representing a hypothesis about evolutionary ancestry of a set of genes, species or other taxa.

Researcher		Department	Research Interests
	Jessica Budke Email	Ecology & Evolutionary Biology	Evolutionary developmental biology, maternal effects, structure-function relationships, systematics, botany, bryology (mosses), natural history collections
	Elizabeth Derryberry Email	Ecology & Evolutionary Biology	Behavioral and cultural evolution
	James Fordyce Email	Ecology & Evolutionary Biology	Evolutionary ecology, plant-insect interactions
	Sergey Gavrilets Email	Ecology & Evolutionary Biology; Mathematics	Theoretical evolutionary biology, social and evolutionary dynamics
	Brian O'Meara Email	Ecology & Evolutionary Biology	Phylogenetics, macroevolution
	Joe Williams Email	Ecology & Evolutionary Biology	Plant evolutionary biology

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From 2008 until early 2021, NIMBioS was supported by the National Science Foundation through NSF Award #DBI-1300426, with additional support from The University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.