Mathematics of Evolution and Phylogeny
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-923134-8 (ISBN)
This book considers evolution at different scales: sequences, genes, gene families, organelles, genomes and species. The focus is on the mathematical and computational tools and concepts, which form an essential basis of evolutionary studies, indicate their limitations, and give them orientation. Recent years have witnessed rapid progress in the mathematics of evolution and phylogeny, with models and methods becoming more realistic, powerful, and complex.
Aimed at graduates and researchers in phylogenetics, mathematicians, computer scientists and biologists, and including chapters by leading scientists: A. Bergeron, D. Bertrand, D. Bryant, R. Desper, O. Elemento, N. El-Mabrouk, N. Galtier, O. Gascuel, M. Hendy, S. Holmes, K. Huber, A. Meade, J. Mixtacki, B. Moret, E. Mossel, V. Moulton, M. Pagel, M.-A. Poursat, D. Sankoff, M. Steel, J. Stoye, J. Tang, L.-S. Wang, T. Warnow, Z. Yang, this book of contributed chapters explains the basis and covers the recent results in this highly topical area.
Olivier Gascuel leads a research group at LIRMM-CNRS, Montpellier. He is an associate editor of Systematic Biology and belongs to the editorial board of BMC-Bioinformatics, BMC-Evolutionary Biology, and BMC-Algorithms for Molecular Biology. He has published 110 papers and book chapters, and authored several widely used programs in phylogenetics and bioinformatics.
Introduction ; 1. The minimum evolution distance-based approach of phylogenetic inference ; 2. Likelihood calculation in molecular phylogenetics ; 3. Bayesian inference in molecular phylogenetics ; 4. Statistical approaches to test involving phylogenetics ; 5. Mixture models in phylogenetic inference ; 6. Hadamard conjugation: an analytic tool for phylogenetics ; 7. Phylogenetic networks ; 8. Recontructing the duplication history of tandemly repeated sequences ; 9. Conserved segment statistics and rearrangement inferences in comparative genomics ; 10. The inversion distance problem ; 11. Genome rearrangement with gene families ; 12. Reconstructing phylogenies from gene-content and gene-order data ; 13. Distance-based genome rearrangement phylogeny ; 14. How much can evolved characters tell us about the tree that generated them?
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 18.10.2007 |
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| Verlagsort | Oxford |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 155 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 693 g |
| Themenwelt | Informatik ► Grafik / Design ► Digitale Bildverarbeitung |
| Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Theorie / Studium | |
| Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Angewandte Mathematik | |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Evolution | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-923134-6 / 0199231346 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-923134-8 / 9780199231348 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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