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Building the First Tree of All Life
• Rough draft tree for all 1.8 million named species
• Community exercise • Wikipedia-like
Family Tree
From Darwin’s The Origin of Species
“As buds give rise by growth to fresh buds, and these, if vigorous, branch out and overtop on all sides many a feebler branch, so by generation I believe it has been with the great Tree of Life, which fills with its dead and broken branches the crust of the earth, and covers the surface with its ever-branching and beautiful ramifications.”
Earnst Haeckel’s Tree of Life
1866
What Took So Long?
• Building big phylogenetic trees a complex problem• Perfect Storm
– Algorithm development– Computational tools and power– DNA sequence revolution
A Universe of Possible TreesA Universe of Possible Trees
We are Just One Twig on the Tree of Life
You are here
Thoreau’s Woods
Henry David Thoreau (1817 –1862) was an American author, poet, philosopher, naturalist
• Walden—best known book• Thoreau’s Woods…MA
Phylogenetic loss of species related to climate change in Thoreau’s Woods
Willis et al. 2008
Biodiversity Studies
GraphTheory
Smith et al. 2013PLoS Comput Biol 9(9): e1003223.
Building the Tree of Life
• Rough tree for all 1.8 million described species • Then becomes a community exercise• Tools (incentives) to allow researchers to edit
(annotate) portions of the tree• Include fossils—”tree of life and death”• Wikipedia-like, but many trees possible for a clade• Public Tree—Educational materials
http://blog.opentreeoflife.org/
Tree of Life
Public Tree
Public Tree