Organizers: Gonzalo Giribet (Harvard University) and Gert Wörheide (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich)
The field of phylogenetics has been revolutionized during the past decade due to the ever decreasing costs of high throughput sequencing and associated advances for data analysis. The massive data production has lead to a plethora of papers describing new - and often controversial and conflicting - hypotheses of animal relationships, and have furthered new methodological developments. This symposium encourages contributions that will capitalize on novel technological and methodological developments to increase our understanding of animal phylogeny, systematics and evolution, instead of focusssing on some recalcitrant ongoing debates. In the true spirit of GIGA, we envisage that the novel approaches presented to analyse full nuclear genome data will significantly help a more robust resolution of the animal tree of life.
The field of phylogenetics has been revolutionized during the past decade due to the ever decreasing costs of high throughput sequencing and associated advances for data analysis. The massive data production has lead to a plethora of papers describing new - and often controversial and conflicting - hypotheses of animal relationships, and have furthered new methodological developments. This symposium encourages contributions that will capitalize on novel technological and methodological developments to increase our understanding of animal phylogeny, systematics and evolution, instead of focusssing on some recalcitrant ongoing debates. In the true spirit of GIGA, we envisage that the novel approaches presented to analyse full nuclear genome data will significantly help a more robust resolution of the animal tree of life.
