The past decade has seen the emergence of a new field of scientific inquiry
at the intersection of phylogenetics and genomics: phylogenomics. From one
perspective, phylogenomics is defined as the use of large genomic data sets to
aid in difficult phylogeny problems. Alternatively, phylogenomics may be
described as the use of phylogeny and comparative analysis to infer processes
of genome evolution. Regardless of how one defines the field, the two applications
are intertwined. This volume is a collection of protocols and resources
compiled by leading researchers in the field and describes many of the molecular
methods and bioinformatics tools that have brought this field to fruition in
recent years