Olivier Gascuel / Mike Steel (eds.)

Reconstructing Evolution: New Mathematical and Computational Advances

Herausgeber: Gascuel, Olivier; Steel, Mike

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Produktbeschreibung

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Evolution is a complex process, acting at multiple scales, from DNA sequences and proteins to populations of species. This collection of 10 chapters - based around five themes - provides a detailed overview of the key topics, from the underlying concepts to the latest results.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: August 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 255mm x 179mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 747g
• ISBN-13: 9780199208227
• ISBN-10: 0199208220
• Artikelnr.: 22708227

Autorenporträt

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. Mike Steel directs the Biomathematics Research Centre at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand and is an associate editor of the journal Systematic Biology. He has published 120 papers and book chapters on mathematical aspects of evolutionary biology, and is co-author of the book Phylogenetics (Oxford University Press, 2003).

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* List of Contributors
* I Evolution in populations
* 1: J Felsenstein: Trees of genes in populations
* 2: A Rodrigo, G Ewing, A Drummond: The evolutionary analysis of
measurably evolving populations using serially sampled gene sequences
* II Models of sequence evolution
* 3: O Gascuel and S Guindon: Modelling the variability of evolutionary
processes
* 4: E Allman and J Rhodes: Phylogenetic invariants
* III Tree shape, speciation and extinction
* 5: A Mooers, L Harmon, M Blum, D Wong, S Heard: Some models of
phylogenetic tree shape
* 6: K Hartmann and M Steel: Phylogenetic diversity: from combinatorics
to ecology
* IV Trees from subtrees and characters
* 7: M Sanderson, C Ané, O Eulenstein, D Fernández-Baca, J Kim, M
McMahon, R Piaggio-Talice: Fragmentation of large data sets in
phylogenetic analyses
* 8: S Grünewald and K Huber: Identifying and defining trees
* V From trees to networks
* 9: D Huson: Split networks and reticulate networks
* 10: C Semple: Hybridization networks
* Index