Statistical methods in molecular evolution / Rasmus Nielsen, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nielsen, Rasmus, 1970-

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Bernard W. Freeman Book Fund.

Series:

Statistics for biology and health

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Molecular evolution--Statistical methods.

Molecular evolution.

Molecular evolution--Mathematical models.

Molecular biology--Statistical methods.

Molecular biology.

Evolution (Biology)--Statistical methods.

Evolution (Biology).

Mathematical models.

Statistics.

Physical Description:

xii, 504 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Springer, [2005]

Contents:

Markov models in molecular evolution / Nicolas Galtier, Olivier Gascuel, and Alain Jean-Marie

Introduction to applications of the likelihood function in molecular evolution / Jutta Buschbom and Arndt von Haeseler

Introduction to Markov chain Monte Carlo methods in molecular evolution / Bret Larget

Population genetics of molecular evolution / Carlos D. Bustamante

Maximum likelilhood methods for detecting adaptive protein evolution / Joseph P. Bielawski and Ziheng Yang

HyPhy: hypothesis testing using phylogenies / Sergei L. Kosakovsky Pond and Spencer V. Muse

Bayesian analysis of molecular evolution using MrBayes / John P. Huelsenbeck and Fredrik Ronquist

Estimation of divergence times from molecular sequence data / Jeffrey L. Thorne and Hirohisa Kishino

Markov models of protein sequence evolution / Matthew W. Dimmic

Models of microsatellite evolution / Peter Calabrese and Raazesh Sainudiin

Genome rearrangement / Rick Durrett

Phylogenetic hidden Markov models / Adam Siepel and David Haussler

The evolutionary causes and consequences of base composition variation / Gilean A.T. McVean

Statistical alignment: recent progress, new applications, and challenges / Gerton Lunter ... [et al.]

Estimating substitution matrices / Von Bing Yap and Terry Speed

Posterior mapping and posterior predictive distributions / Jonathan P. Bollback

Assessing the uncertainty in phylogenetic inference / Hidetoshi Shimodaira and Masami Hasegawa.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Bernard W. Freeman Book Fund.

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

0387223339

OCLC:

60496853