amino acid vs. nucleotide based phylogeny

[David Guzman]

In article <3DC78F74.50205 at marseille.inserm.fr>, François Coulier wrote:
> Olga Belenkiy a écrit:
>> Hi everyone,
>> 
>> I am looking for the material (books, papers) that review and discuss 
>> advantages and disadvantages of using protein or nucleic sequence data 
>> for phylogenetic reconstruction.
>> 
>> Thanks ahead.
>> 
>> Olga.
>> 
> 
> Have a look at Simmons et al., 2002, Cladistics vol 18, pp200-206 and 
> Simmons et al., 2002, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution vol 24, pp78-90.
> 
> In these papers, Simmons advocates the use of nucleotides.
> 
> François
> 
I disagree with using nucleotide data both for phylogeny and evolution,
these biological concepts are related to phenotype. Probably, the
utilisation of expression studies (such as microarrays) can provide such
character to nucleotide data. At least that's my opinion

                                        David