Parsimony, phylogeny, and genomics / edited by Victor A. Albert.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Albert, Victor A. (Victor Anthony), 1964-

Rudolph G. Schmieder Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cladistic analysis.

Genetics.

Phylogeny.

Models, Genetic.

Likelihood Functions.

Genomics.

Medical Subjects:

Models, Genetic.

Likelihood Functions.

Phylogeny.

Genomics.

Physical Description:

ix, 229 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.

Summary:

"This book examines the potential that parsimony analysis (cladistics) summarization method has for both structural and functional comparative genomic research"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Parsimony and phylogenetics in the genomic age / Victor A. Albert

What is the rationale for 'Ockham's razor' (a.k.a. parsimony) in phylogenetic inference? / Arnold G. Kluge

Parsimony and its presuppositions / Elliott Sober

The logic of the data matrix in phylogenetic analysis / Brent D. Mishler

Alignment, dynamic homology, and optimization / Ward C. Wheeler

Parsimony and the problem of inapplicables in sequence data / Jan E. De Laet

The limits of conventional cladistic analysis / Jerrold I. Davis, Kevic C. Nixon and Damon P. Little

Parsimony and Bayesian phylogenetics / Pablo A. Goloboff and Diego Pol

Maximum parsimony and the phylogenetic information in multistate characters / Mike Steel and David Penny

Using phylogeny to understand genomic evolution / David A. Liberles

Dollo parsimony and the reconstruction of genome evolution / Igor B. Rogozin ... [et al.].

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-217) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rudolph G. Schmieder Fund.

ISBN:

0198564937

OCLC:

56904569

Publisher Number:

9780198564935