Phylogenetics in Evolution and Ecology

This is a page hosting resources used in the Phylogenetics in Evolution and Ecology practical course taught by Faysal Bibi at the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin.

Course is registered through the Institute of Biochemistry and Biology, University of Potsdam (since 2017). Letters/certificates of attendance can also be provided.

Course overview (pdf)

Software resources:

BEAST Dendroscope   Figtree

jModelTest  Mesquite 

MeshLab  MUSCLE

R   RStudio

Tracer   TNT  SplitsTree 

Day 1 – Phylogenetics. Tree thinking. Parsimony

Programs used: Pen and Paper!

Presentation: Lecture 1 pdf

Baum et al. 2005 Tree-thinking Quiz I

Cladisticules exercise

Baum et al. 2005 Tree-thinking Quiz II

Baum et al. 2005 Original paper

Day 2 – Parsimony analysis. Morphological data

Programs used: TNT, Mesquite, Figtree

Presentation: Lecture 2 pdf

Example files:

Dembo_2015.tnt Hominin morphological dataset (Character list & Publication)

Anolis.tnt  Extant anolis lizard DNA [Source: BEAST example file]

Bears.nex Extant and fossil bear morphology. Publication

TNT command line instructions (all platforms)

TNT command line wiki page

TNT Windows instructions or pdf here

A more in-depth tutorial on TNT (ppt)

3D cranial specimens for morphological analysis

Day 3 – Molecular data. Model testing. Maximum likelihood. Bayesian analyses

Programs used: jModelTest, Mesquite, PhyML (online), BEAST, Tracer, Figtree

Presentation: Lecture 3 pdf

Example files:

Primates.nex – an alignment of molecular data from primates

Dembo_2015_beast.nex – the hominin fossil dataset cleaned up for beast (invariant characters and ambiguous codings removed).

Day 4 – Total Evidence Analysis. Fossil calibration and time-trees

Programs used: BEAST, Tracer, Figtree

Presentation: Lecture 4 pdf

Example files:

Primates.nex (from yesterday)

Dembo_2015_beast.nex (from yesterday)

Hedges et al. 2015 paper on molecular rates

Dembo fossil ages – text file with tip ages for beauti.

Caprini_cytb.nex – Caprini cytochrome b alignment (Publication)

Caprini_morph.nex – Caprini morphology matrix

Bears – an excellent tutorial on using the FBD model for dating

Penguins – Total evidence xml file for Beauti (Publication)

Day 5 – Guest Presentations

Programs used: MrBayes, TNT, Figtree, R, RStudio

Juan Cantalapiedra – Phylogenetics in the study of macroevolution

lecture pdf

files

Roland Sookias – Character construction, outgroups, and data exploration

lecture pdf

files

Day 6 – Phylogenetic networks. GenBank query. Alignment. Topological constraints.

Programs used: BLAST (online), Dendroscope, Densitree, Mesquite. MUSCLE, SplitsTree.

Presentation: Lecture 6 pdf

Mystery DNA sequence

Meredith et al. 2011 Mammal DNA dataset

Day 7 – Total Evidence class exercise

Presentation: Lecture 7 pdf

Day 8 – Work on individual projects

Day 9 – Work on individual projects

Day 10 – Project presentations