Mathematics of Evolution and Phylogeny

Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-0-19-923134-8
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 442 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 670 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Graduates and researchers in phylogenetics, mathematicians, computer scientists and biologists

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gascuel, Olivier

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Professionelle Anwendung Computersimulation & Modelle, 3-D Graphik
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Angewandte Biologie Biomathematik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Forschung und Information Datenanalyse, Datenverarbeitung
• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Mathematik Allgemein
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Evolutionsbiologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Populärwissenschaftliche Werke
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Informatik Mathematik für Informatiker

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 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?

Über Autor(innen)

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.