Contributors Introduction: Charting the Tree of Life Michael J. Donoghue and Joel Cracraft: The Importance of Knowing the Tree of Life 1: Terry L. Yates, Jorge Salazar-Bravo, and Jerry W. Dragoo: The Importance of the Tree of Life to Society 2: Rita R. Colwell: A Tangled Bank: Reflections on the Tree of Life and Human Health 3: Douglas J. Futuyma: The Fruit of the Tree of Life: Insights into Evolution and Ecology The Origin and Radiation of Life on Earth 4: S.L. Baldauf, D. Bhattacharya, J. Cockrill, P. Hugenholtz, J. Pawlowski, and G.B. Simpson: The Tree of Life: An Overview 5: Norman R. Pace: The Early Branches in the Tree of Life 6: W. Ford Doolittle: Bacteria and Archaea 7: Herve Philippe: The Origin and Radiation of Eucaryotes 8: David P. Mindell, Joshua S. Rest, and Luis P. Villarreal: Viruses and the Tree of Life The Relationships of Green Plants 9: Charles F. Delwiche, Robert A. Anderson, Debashish Bhattacharya, Brent D. Mishler, and Richard M. McCourt: Algal Evolution and the Early Radiation of Green Plants 10: Kathleen M. Pryer, Harald Schneider, and Susana Magallon: The Radiation of Vascular Plants 11: Pamela S. Soltis, Douglas E. Soltis, Mark W. Chase, Peter K. Endress, and Peter R. Crane: The Diversification of Flowering Plants The Relationship of Fungi 12: John W. Taylor, Joseph Spatafora, Kerry O'Donnell, Francois Lutzoni, Timothy James, David S. Hibbett, David Geiser, Thomas D. Bruns, and Meredith Blackwell: The Fungi The Relationships of Animals: Overview 13: Douglas J. Eernisse and Kevin J. Peterson: The History of Animals 14: Protostomes and Platyhelminthes: The Worm's Turn D. Timothy, J. Littlewood, Maximilian J. Telford, and Rodney A. Bray: The Relationship of Animals: Lophotrochozoans 15: Mark E. Siddall, Elizabeth Borda, and Gregory W. Rouse: Toward a Tree of Life for Annelida 16: David R. Lindberg, Winston F. Ponder, and Gerhard Haszprunar: The Mollusca: Relationships and Patterns from Their First Half-Billion Years The Relationships of Animals: Ecdysozoans 17: Ward C. Wheeler, Gonzalo Giribet, and Gregory D. Edgecombe: Arthropod Systematics: The Comparative Study of Genomic, Anatomical, and Paleontological Information 18: Jonathan A. Coddington, Gonzalo Giribet, Mark S. Harvey, Lorenzo Prendini, and David E. Walter: Arachnida 19: Frederick R. Schram and Stefan Koenemann: Are the Crustaceans Monophyletic? 20: Rainer Willmann: Phylogenetic Relationship and Evolution of Insects 21: Michael F. Whiting: Phylogeny of the Holometabolous Insects: The Most Successful Group of Terrestrial Organisms The Relationships of Animals: Deuterostomes 22: Andrew B. Smith, Kevin J. Peterson, Gregory Wray, and D.T. Littlewood: From Bilateral Symmetry to Pentaradiality: The Phylogeny of Hemichordates and Echinoderms 23: Timothy Rowe: Chordate Phylogeny and Development 24: M.L.J. Stiassny, E.O. Wiley, G.D. Johnson, and M.R. de Carvalho: Gnathostome Fishes 25: David Cannatella and David M. Hillis: Amphibians: Leading a Life of Slime 26: Michael S.Y. Lee, Todd W. Reeder, Joseph B. Slowinski, and Robin Lawson: Resolving Reptile Relationships: Molecular and Morphological Markers 27: Joel Cracraft, F. Keith Barker, Michael Braun, John Harshman, Gareth J. Dyke, Julie Feinstein, Scott Stanley, Alice Cibois, Peter Schikler, Pamela Beresford, Jaime Garcia-Moreno, Michael D. Sorenson, Tamaki Yuri, and David P. Mindell: Phylogenetic Relationships among Modern Birds (Neornithes): Toward an Avian Tree of Life 28: Maureen A. O'Leary, Marc Allard, Michael J. Novacek, Jin Meng, and John Gatesy: Building the Mammalian Sector of the Tree of Life: Combining Different Data and a Discussion of Divergence Times for Placental Mammals 29: Bernard Wood and Paul Constantino: Human Origins: Life at the Top of the Tree Perspectives on the Tree of Life 30: The Meaning of Biodiversity and the Tree of Life Edward O. Wilson: 31: David B. Wake: A Tree Grows in Manhattan 32: The Tree of Life and the Grand Synthesis of Biology David M. Hillis: 33: Michael J. Donoghue: Immeasurable Progress on the Tree of Life 34: Joel Cracraft and Michael J. Donoghue: Assembling the Tree of Life: Where We Stand at the Beginning of the 21st Century Index
