Oliver Gascuel (ed.)

Mathematics of Evolution and Phylogeny

Herausgeber: Gascuel, Olivier

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 444
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Mai 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 162mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 903g
• ISBN-13: 9780198566106
• ISBN-10: 0198566107
• Artikelnr.: 21366135

Autorenporträt

Edited by Olivier Gascuel, Laboratoire d'Informatique, de Robotique et de Microélectronique de Montpellier

Inhaltsangabe

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