Tree of Life

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Post by badminton1 » Sun, Mar 11, 2018, 8:40 AM UTC

Re: Tree of Life

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Post by badminton1 » Mon, Mar 12, 2018, 11:17 PM UTC

You can explore the tree of life including extinct branches. It is incredible to see that for each live branch there are many branches that didn't make it.

Re: Tree of Life

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Post by beefman » Mon, Mar 12, 2018, 11:59 PM UTC

A summary view that may be of interest:

https://gist.github.com/clumma/e9cceceb2296fd1e73968170f8832...

Re: Tree of Life

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Post by madmaze » Tue, Mar 13, 2018, 1:46 AM UTC

I have fond memories working on an interactive visualization on a MS Surface table using this data. Great to see TOL still being used!

Re: Tree of Life

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Post by badminton1 » Tue, Mar 13, 2018, 1:46 AM UTC

beefman wrote: post #3

A summary view that may be of interest: https://gist.github.com/clumma/e9cceceb2296fd1e73968170f8832...

And this parody: http://abstrusegoose.com/339

Re: Tree of Life

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Post by mirimir » Tue, Mar 13, 2018, 5:05 AM UTC

This is very cool!

But damn, it's complicated. Consider the root.[0] As I vaguely understand it, evolution of eukaryotes involved multiple fusions of separate lines. The basic cell came from one line. And nuclei, mitochondria and chloroplasts from other lines. I gather that there was at first symbiosis, which then became permanent. And perhaps other organelles came from other lines.

Nuclei and mitochondria must have integrated first, because both plants and animals have them. And then plants got chloroplasts.

I wonder whether relationships are clear enough yet to include in the tree.

0) http://tolweb.org/Life_on_Earth/1

Re: Tree of Life

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Post by folli » Tue, Mar 13, 2018, 5:45 AM UTC

beefman wrote: post #3

A summary view that may be of interest: https://gist.github.com/clumma/e9cceceb2296fd1e73968170f8832...

Seems not to be completely up to date. Eukaryotes are increasingly viewed as a subset of Archaea, instead of Archaea a subset of Prokaryotes.

See for example: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2464739/

Re: Tree of Life

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Post by 153957 » Tue, Mar 13, 2018, 6:34 AM UTC

Great website which I used many times to check the precise species appearing in photos I made. Unfortunately the project seems to have stopped updating over 9 years ago (if the news page is a good indicator).

Re: Tree of Life

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Post by limbicsystem » Tue, Mar 13, 2018, 9:11 AM UTC

mirimir wrote: post #6

This is very cool! But damn, it's complicated. Consider the root.[0] As I vaguely understand it, evolution of eukaryotes involved multiple fusions of separate lines. The basic cell came from one line. And nuclei, mitochondria and chloroplasts from other lines. I gather that there was at first symbiosis, which then became permanent. And perhaps other organelles came from other lines. Nuclei and mitochondria must have…

This one is much easier to use and you can get common ancestors (toggle the 'relate' switch) http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/labs/lab/evolution/research#/ev... What I love about it is typing in two things that seem fairly distant like humans and fruit flies and then seeing it zoom in quite way to show that they come off a relatively late branch.

Re: Tree of Life

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Post by AllegedAlec » Tue, Mar 13, 2018, 10:00 AM UTC

It's such a shame that the project website hasn't been updated anymore since '11 due to funding problems. It was a huge help during my studies and I enjoyed just browsing around on it.