Talk:Molecular phylogeny
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Article Grading: The following comments were left by the quality and importance raters: (edit · history · refresh · how to use this template) I just assessed this article (Molecular phylogeny) and flagged it as needing attention. Most of my edits on this article were linking or copyediting it, I have no particular knowledge of MP. The article covers a current field of study, but I was very unclear about both its naming and its pedigree. In particular, there is one comment on its Talk page suggesting that the title Molecular systematics would be a broader title and that molecular phylogeny would be a subgroup of that. I could not determine from the article or other articles related to it what its parent disciplines would be. It's certainly a subset of Molecular Biology, but I'm not educated in the various molecular and genetic disciplines. Thank you for taking a look at this article, and let me know if I can be of service. -- mordel (talk) 19:31, 13 February 2008 (UTC) |
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The link http://www.bact.wisc.edu/MicrotextBook/ClassAndPhylo/molPhylogeny.html is outdated. The new link is http://www.bact.wisc.edu/Microtextbook/ I couldn't figure out which section targeted by the old link fits to the new link, therefor I didn't edit the article.
[edit] Merge?
Not entirely sure why this article was merged with Molecular systematics, or more importantly, why the two were not merged under the more inclusive heading of "molecular systematics", rather than the narrower concept of "molecular phylogeny". Was a this merge recommended or discussed anywhere? MrDarwin 14:07, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
[edit] First sentence
A molecular phylogeny is the result of molecular phylogenetics, isn't it? 203.160.122.99 23:51, 27 October 2007 (UTC)
[edit] History
I've just read a bit in Matt Ridley's Nature via Nurture about the history of molecular phylogenetics. Ridley says a Californian called George Nuttall discovered while working in Cambridge University (UK ) that the more closely 2 species were related, the more similar were the immune system responses their blood provoked in rabbits. Then in 1967 Vincent Sarich and Allan Wilson used a more sophisticated version of this immunological analysis to estimate the divergence time of humans and apes as 4 to 5 million years ago, at a time when standard interpretations of the fossil record gave this divergence as from at least 10 to as much as 30 million years ago. Then in the mid-1970s Wilson asked Mary-Claire King (then a Ph.D. student) to do a similar molecular clock analysis using DNA. That's when they found that human and chimp DNA were 99% identical (using their definitions - other definitions lead to a 95% match). I have too many wiki-irons in the fire to do any research on this at present, so I hope someone else will be able to use it. Philcha (talk) 00:22, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
