Phylogeny mandalas for illustrating the Tree of Life.
A circular phylogeny with photos or drawings of species is named a phylogeny mandala. This is one of the ways for illustrating the Tree of Life, and is suitable to show visually how the biodiversity has developed in the course of evolution as clarified by the molecular phylogenetics. To demonstrate the recent progress of molecular phylogenetics, six phylogeny mandalas for various taxonomic groups of life were presented; i.e., (1) Eukaryota, (2) Metazoa, (3) Hexapoda, (4) Tetrapoda, (5) Eutheria, and (6) Primates.
The Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Midori-cho 10-3, Tachikawa, Tokyo 190-8562, Japan. Electronic address: masamihase@gmail.com.
Masami
M
Hasegawa
D000818:Animals; D044822:Biodiversity; D001878:Books, Illustrated; D056890:Eukaryota / Q000235:genetics; D019143:Evolution, Molecular; D010802:Phylogeny; D011323:Primates / Q000235:genetics
Molecular phylogenetics; Phylogeny mandala; Tree of Life