Mathematics of Evolution and Phylogeny
Published on 18. October 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
444 pages
978-0-19-923134-8 (ISBN)
Description
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 the mathematics of evolution and phylogeny, with models and methods becoming more realistic, powerful, and complex.
Aimed at graduates and researchers in phylogenetics, mathematicians, computer scientists and biologists, and including chapters by leading scientists: A. Bergeron, D. Bertrand, D. Bryant, R. Desper, O. Elemento, N. El-Mabrouk, N. Galtier, O. Gascuel, M. Hendy, S. Holmes, K. Huber, A. Meade, J. Mixtacki, B. Moret, E. Mossel, V. Moulton, M. Pagel, M.-A. Poursat, D. Sankoff, M. Steel, J. Stoye, J. Tang, L.-S. Wang, T. Warnow, Z. Yang, this book of contributed chapters explains the basis and covers the recent results in this highly topical area.
Aimed at graduates and researchers in phylogenetics, mathematicians, computer scientists and biologists, and including chapters by leading scientists: A. Bergeron, D. Bertrand, D. Bryant, R. Desper, O. Elemento, N. El-Mabrouk, N. Galtier, O. Gascuel, M. Hendy, S. Holmes, K. Huber, A. Meade, J. Mixtacki, B. Moret, E. Mossel, V. Moulton, M. Pagel, M.-A. Poursat, D. Sankoff, M. Steel, J. Stoye, J. Tang, L.-S. Wang, T. Warnow, Z. Yang, this book of contributed chapters explains the basis and covers the recent results in this highly topical area.
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It is great value for graduate students and researchers in phylogeny, and it offers a wide field for applied mathematicians. * EMS Newsletter *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Graduates and researchers in phylogenetics, mathematicians, computer scientists and biologists
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
670 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-923134-8 (9780199231348)
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Olivier Gascuel
Mathematics of Evolution and Phylogeny
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02/2005
Oxford University Press
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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.
Content
Introduction ; 1. The minimum evolution distance-based approach of phylogenetic inference ; 2. Likelihood calculation in molecular phylogenetics ; 3. Bayesian inference in molecular phylogenetics ; 4. Statistical approaches to test involving phylogenetics ; 5. Mixture models in phylogenetic inference ; 6. Hadamard conjugation: an analytic tool for phylogenetics ; 7. Phylogenetic networks ; 8. Recontructing the duplication history of tandemly repeated sequences ; 9. Conserved segment statistics and rearrangement inferences in comparative genomics ; 10. The inversion distance problem ; 11. Genome rearrangement with gene families ; 12. 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?