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Phylogenetics / Charles Semple and Mike Steel.
Math/Physics/Astronomy Library QH83 .S45 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Semple, Charles.
- Series:
- Oxford lecture series in mathematics and its applications ; 24.
- Oxford lecture series in mathematics and its applications ; 24
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cladistic analysis--Mathematics.
- Cladistic analysis.
- Evolutionary genetics--Mathematics.
- Evolutionary genetics.
- Mathematics.
- Fylogenese.
- Local Subjects:
- Fylogenese.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 239 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
- Summary:
- Phylogenetic trees and networks are widely used throughout evolutionary biology, epidemiology, and ecology to infer the historical relationships between species through inherited characteristics. This work discusses the mathematics that underlies the reconstruction and analysis of these phylogenetic trees.
- Contents:
- Preliminaries
- Graphs and their role in biology
- X-trees and phylogenetic trees
- Trees and splits
- Compatibility of characters
- Maximum parsimony
- Subtrees and supertrees
- Tree-based metrics
- Markov models on trees.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 218-229).
- ISBN:
- 0198509421
- 9780198509424
- OCLC:
- 50334163
- Online:
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