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

• Pubblicazione: New York, : Oxford University Press, 2005
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (443 p.)
• Disciplina: 578.754/01/51
• Soggetto topico: Evolution (Biology) - Mathematics; Phylogeny - Mathematics
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: GascuelOlivier <1956->
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Mathematics of evolution and phylogeny
• ISBN: 1-280-84626-7; 0-19-151373-3; 1-4294-6927-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910450935503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II