Next Generation Systematics

List of contributors; Introduction: studying diversity in an age of ubiquitous genomics James A. Cotton and Peter D. Olson; Part I. Next Generation Phylogenetics: 1. Perspective: challenges in assembling the 'next generation' tree of life Michael J. Sanderson; 2. The role of next generation sequencing technologies in shaping the future of insect molecular systematics Joseph Hughes and Stuart Longhorn; 3. Phylogenetics of Nematoda Mark Blaxter, Georgios Koutsovoulos, Martin Jones, Sujai Kumar and Ben Elsworth; 4. High throughput multiplexed mitogenomics for metazoans-prospects and limitations Peter G. Foster, Maria Stalteri, Andrea Waeschenbach and D. Timothy J. Littlewood; 5. Investigating bacterial microevolution through next generation sequencing Josephine M. Bryant and Simon R. Harris; Part II. Next Generation Biodiversity Science: 6. Perspective: apres le deluge: ubiquitous field barcoding should drive twenty-first-century taxonomy Richard M. Bateman; 7. Perspective: biodiversity and the (data) beast Holly M. Bik and W. Kelley Thomas; 8. Next generation biodiversity analysis Mehrdad Hajibabaei and Ian King; 9. Protist systematics, ecology and next generation sequencing David Bass and Thomas Bell; Part III. Next Generation Challenges and Questions: 10. Perspective: systematics in the age of genomics Antonis Rokas; 11. Perspective: the role of next generation sequencing for integrative approaches to evolutionary biology Ralf J. Sommer; 12. Next generation apomorphy: the ubiquity of taxonomically restricted genes Paul A. Nelson and Richard J. A. Buggs; 13. Utilizing next generation sequencing for evo-devo study of plant traits Rachael H. Walker, Paula J. Rudall and Beverley J. Glover; 14. An NGS approach to archaeobotanical museum specimens as genetic resources in systematics research Oliver Smith, Sarah A. Palmer, Rafal Gutaker and Robin G. Allaby; 15. From sequence reads to evolutionary inferences James A. Cotton; Index.