John C. Avise
（2006年5月4日刊行予定，Cambridge University Press，ISBN:0521857538 [hbk] / ISBN:0521674174 [pbk]）
【目次】
Preface page ix
Acknowledgments xi
1 Introduction 1
The meaning of phylogeny 1
Phylogenetic metaphors 3
Molecular appraisals of phylogeny 8
Comparative phylogenetics 11
Phylogenetic character mapping 152 Anatomical structures and morphologies 19
Whence the toucan’s bill? 19
The beak of the fish 22
Snails’ shell shapes 25
More on snails’ shell shapes 28
Winged walkingsticks 30
Hermits and kings 34
True and false gharials 36
Loss of limbs on the reptile tree 39
Fishy origins of tetrapods 42
Panda ponderings 44
Fossil DNA and extinct eagles 47
The Yeti’s abominable phylogeny 483 Body colorations 52
Light and dark mice 52
Sexual dichromatism 54
Dabbling into duck plumages 58
Specific avian color motifs 62
The poisonous Pitohui 65
Warning colorations in poison frogs 68
Mullerian mimicry butterflies 71
Caterpillar colors and cryptic species 734 Sexual features and reproductive lifestyles 77
The chicken or the egg? 77
The avian nest 80
Egg dumping and foster parentage 84
Egg laying and live bearing 87
Piscine placentas 90
Male pregnancy 93
Living and reproducing by the sword 95
Brood care in Jamaican land crabs 98
Social parasitism of butterflies on ants 101
Of monkeyflowers and hummingbirds 104
Parthenogenetic lizards, geckos, and snakes 107
Delayed implantation 1105 More behaviors and ecologies 114
The kangaroo’s bipedal hop 114
Powered flight in winged mammals 118
Magnetotaxis in bacteria 121
Cetacean origins 122
Feeding and echolocation in whales 124
The phylogeny of thrush migration 129
Pufferfish inflation 131
Eusociality in shrimp 134
Evolutionary reversals of salamander lifecycles 137
Dichotomous life histories of marine larvae 140
Adaptive radiations in island lizards 143
Spiders’ web-building behaviors 145
Lichen lifestyles 1506 Cellular, physiological, and genetic traits 153
Foregut fermentation 153
Snake venoms 156
Antifreeze proteins in anti-tropical fish 159
Warm-bloodedness in fishes 162
Electrical currents 166
The Xs and Ys of sex determination 168
The eyes have it 170
Two types of body 174
The phylogenomics of DNA repair 178
Roving nucleic acids 180
Host-to-parasite gene transfer 184
Tracking the AIDS virus 1877 Geographical distributions 190
Afrotheria theory 190
Aussie songbirds 193
Madagascar’s chameleons 196
The evolutionary cradle of humanity 200
Coral conservation 204
Sri Lanka, a cryptic biodiversity hotspot 207
Overseas plant dispersal 210
Phylogenetic bearings on Polar Bears 212
Looking over overlooked elephants 215
Bergmann’s rule 218
Epilog 221
Appendix: a primer on phylogenetic character mapping 223
History of cladistic concepts and terminology 223
Maximum parsimony 228
Maximum likelihood 231
Independent contrasts between pairs of quantitative traits 233
Glossary 239
References and further reading 253
Index 279
