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Introduction:
Technical Summary:
Dr. Andrew McDonald, a professor within the Biology department at the University of
Texas Pan American has requested that Dr. Andres Figueroa assist him in his research
developing the phylogenetic tree for the flower named Ipomoea nil (Morning Glory).
And so the two of us will also participate in this project, meeting regularly with Dr.
Figueroa and discussing the requirements Dr. McDonald provides us with. Specifically,
when intend on using our understanding of phylogeny, along with PAUP to build a tree
which will help in Dr. McDonald’s analysis for discovering the ancestor of the Morning
Glory. In order to accomplish this, we will be creating optimal phylogenetic trees using
two sampling methods, the first being Maximum Likelihood and the other Maximum
Parsimony. Rather than focusing on implementation of how to build a phylogenetic tree,
we will direct our attention to analyzing these sampling methods along with the
algorithms used to create these trees. We can then apply our knowledge using PAUP
(software: Phylogenetic Analysis Using Parsimony) to create an optimal phylogenetic
tree. PAUP contains implementations for such sampling methods.