Tree of Life on Earth
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DEB - Funding - Assembling the Tree of Life
Assembling the Tree of Life (ATOL) ATOL update The request for proposals for Assembling the Tree of Life will be moving to a biennial cycle. There will be no 2013 AToL competition. A new solicitation, which will include deadline dates and revised program guidelines, is expected to be issued Fall/Winter 2013. Watch this site for updated information.
Illustration: Tyler Lang Organizing the world’s species into branches on a phylogenetic tree is a major goal of biologists trying to understand how life evolved. DNA-sequencing technologies are providing them with more information than ever with which to accomplish this goal, but with less than 1 percent of all species currently placed in any kind of phylogeny, there is still much work to be done. In a recent paper in Science , researchers at the University of Texas at Austin introduced new tree-building software that could expand the tree of life and change our understanding of evolution. One way to construct evolutionary trees is with software that compares and interprets discrepancies between the molecular sequences of different species using various statistical techniques.
How to Build a Better Tree of Life
Tree of Life Web Project
The Tree of Life Web Project (ToL) is a collaborative effort of biologists and nature enthusiasts from around the world . On more than 10,000 World Wide Web pages, the project provides information about biodiversity, the characteristics of different groups of organisms, and their evolutionary history ( phylogeny ). Each page contains information about a particular group, e.g., salamanders , segmented worms , phlox flowers , tyrannosaurs , euglenids , Heliconius butterflies , club fungi , or the vampire squid . ToL pages are linked one to another hierarchically, in the form of the evolutionary tree of life. Starting with the root of all Life on Earth and moving out along diverging branches to individual species, the structure of the ToL project thus illustrates the genetic connections between all living things.
Tree of Life Web Project
The Tree of Life Web Project (ToL) is a collaborative effort of biologists and nature enthusiasts from around the world . On more than 10,000 World Wide Web pages, the project provides information about biodiversity, the characteristics of different groups of organisms, and their evolutionary history ( phylogeny ). Each page contains information about a particular group, e.g., salamanders , segmented worms , phlox flowers , tyrannosaurs , euglenids , Heliconius butterflies , club fungi , or the vampire squid . ToL pages are linked one to another hierarchically, in the form of the evolutionary tree of life. Starting with the root of all Life on Earth and moving out along diverging branches to individual species, the structure of the ToL project thus illustrates the genetic connections between all living things.
