Next Generation Systematics. 2016. (Systematics Association Special Volume Series, 85). illus. X, 347 p. gr8vo. Hardcover.

We live in an age of ubiquitous genomics. Next generation sequencing (NGS) technology, both widely adopted today andadvancing at pace, has transformed today's data landscape, opening up an enormous source of heritable characters to the comparative biologist. Its impact on systematics, like many other fields of biology, has been felt throughout its breadth:from defining species boundaries to estimating their evolutionary histories. This volume examines the broad range of ways in which NGS data are being used in systematics and in the fields that it underpins, from biodiversity prospecting to evo-devo. The authors draw on contemporary case studies to demonstrate state-of-the-art applications of NGS data. These, along with novel analyses, ccomprehensive reviews and lively perspectives are combined toproduce an authoritative account of contemporary issues in systematics that have been advanced and impacted by the recent adoption of NGS. -Contents: Introduction: studying diversity in an age of ubiquitous genomics James A. Cotton and Peter D. Olson/ Part I. Next Generation Phylogenetics: 1. Perspective: challenges in assembling the 'next generation' tree of life Michael J. Sanderson/ 2. The role of next generation sequencing technologies in shaping the future of insect molecular systematics Joseph Hughes and Stuart Longhorn/ 3. Phylogenetics of Nematoda Mark Blaxter, Georgios Koutsovoulos, Martin Jones, Sujai Kumar and Ben Elsworth/4. High throughput multiplexed mitogenomics for metazoans-prospects and limitations Peter G. Foster, Maria Stalteri, Andrea Waeschenbach and D. Timothy J. Littlewood/ 5. Investigating bacterial microevolution through next generation sequencing Josephine M. Bryant and Simon R. Harris/ Part II. Next Generation Biodiversity Science: 6. Perspective: après le déluge: ubiquitous field barcoding should drive twenty-first-century taxonomy Richard M. Bateman/ 7. Perspective: biodiversity and the (data) beast Holly M. Bik and W. Kelley Thomas/ 8. Next generation biodiversity analysis Mehrdad Hajibabaei and Ian King9. Protist systematics, ecology and next generation sequencing David Bass and Thomas Bell/ Part III. Next Generation Challengesand Questions:10. Perspective: systematics in the age of genomics Antonis Rokas/ 11. Perspective: the role of next generation sequencing for integrative approaches to evolutionary biology Ralf J. Sommer/ 12. Next generation apomorphy: the ubiquity of taxonomically restricted genes Paul A. Nelson and Richard J. A. Buggs/ 13. Utilizing next generation sequencing for evo-devo study of plant traits Rachael H. Walker, Paula J. Rudall and Beverley J. Glover/ 14. An NGS approach to archaeobotanical museum specimens as genetic resources in systematics research Oliver Smith, Sarah A. Palmer, Rafal Gutaker and Robin G. Allaby/ 15. From sequence reads to evolutionary inferences James A. Cotton/ Index.