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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450935503321

Titolo

Mathematics of evolution and phylogeny [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Olivier Gascuel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 2005

ISBN

1-280-84626-7

0-19-151373-3

1-4294-6927-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (443 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

GascuelOlivier <1956->

Disciplina

578.754/01/51

Soggetti

Evolution (Biology) - Mathematics

Phylogeny - Mathematics

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Contributors; 1 The minimum evolution distance-based approach to phylogenetic inference; 2 Likelihood calculation in molecular phylogenetics; 3 Bayesian inference in molecular phylogenetics; 4 Statistical approach to tests involving phylogenies; 5 Mixture models in phylogenetic inference; 6 Hadamard conjugation: an analytic tool for phylogenetics; 7 Phylogenetic networks; 8 Reconstructing the duplication history of tandemly repeated sequences; 9 Conserved segment statistics and rearrangement inferences in comparative genomics; 10 The inversion distance problem

11 Genome rearrangements with gene families12 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?; Index

Sommario/riassunto

"This book considers evolution at different scales. 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"--Provided by publisher.