Mathematics of Evolution and Phylogeny

Olivier Gascuel

350 pages, parution le 15/03/2005

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Résumé

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 this area, with models and methods becoming more realistic, powerful, and complex.

This book of contributed chapters is authored by renowned scientists and covers recent results in the highly topical area of mathematics in evolution and phylogeny. Each chapter is a detailed overview of a specific topic, from the underlying concepts to the latest results. Aimed at graduates and researchers in phylogenetics, this book will be of interest to both mathematicians and biologists.

Readership: Aimed at graduates and researchers in phylogenetics, this book will be of interest to both mathematicians and biologists.

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Richard Desper and Olivier Gascuel: The minimum evolution distance-based approach of phylogenetic inference
David Bryant, Nicolas Galtier, and Marie-Anne Poursat: Likelihood calculation in molecular phylogenetics
Ziheng Yang: Bayesian inference in molecular phylogenetics
Susan Holmes: Statistical approaches to test involving phylogenetics
Mark Pagel and Andrew Meade: Mixture models in phylogenetic inference
Michael D. Hendy: Hadamard conjugation: an analytic tool for phylogenetics
Vincent Moulton and Katharina Huber: Phylogenetic networks
Olivier Gascuel, Denis Bertrand, and Olivier Elemento: Recontructing the duplication history of tandemly repeated sequences
David Sankoff: Conserved segment statistics and rearrangement inferences in comparative genomics
Anne Bergeron, Julia Mixtacki, and Jens Stoye: The inversion distance problem
Nadia El-Mabrouk: Genome rearrangement with gene families
Bernard M.E. Moret, Jijun Tang, and Tandy Warnow: Reconstructing phylogenies from gene-content and gene-order data
Li-San Wang and Tandy Warnow: Distance-based genome rearrangement phylogeny
Elchanan Mossel and Mike Steel: How much can evolved characters tell us about the tree that generated them?

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Éditeur(s)	Oxford University Press
Auteur(s)	Olivier Gascuel
Parution	15/03/2005
Nb. de pages	350
Format	16 x 24
Couverture	Relié
Poids	910g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780198566106
ISBN13	978-0-19-856610-6