TY - JOUR TI - The place of phylogeny and cladistics in Evo-Devo research. AU - Telford, Maximilian J AU - Budd, Graham E T2 - The International Journal of Developmental Biology AB - Here we review the various uses to which phylogenetic trees may be put when analysing the evolution of organisms and of the genotypic and phenotypic characteristics of these organisms. We briefly discuss the cladistic method and its application in the inference of phylogenetictrees. Next we consider the uses to which phylogenetic trees can be put: in particular for determining the homology or otherwise of characters distributed on those trees and for estimating the likely characteristics of ancestral taxa. Finally we show the application of this information for deepening our understanding of the processes of evolution. All of these forms of inference are fundamental for comparative biology and of immediate importance to the practice of evolutionary developmental biology. PY - 2003 VL - 47 IS - 7-8 SP - 479 EP - 490 J2 - Int. J. Dev. Biol. LA - en SN - 0214-6282 SN - 1696-3547 UR - https://ijdb.ehu.eus/article/14756323 Y2 - 2024/05/05/04:18:43 ER -