Mathematics of evolution and phylogeny / edited by Olivier Gascuel.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gascuel, Olivier, 1956- editor.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Evolution (Biology)--Mathematics.

Evolution (Biology).

Phylogeny--Mathematics.

Phylogeny.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (443 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Presenting a consideration of evolution at the level of sequences, genes, gene families, organelles, genomes and species, the central focus of this text is on the mathematical and computational tools and concepts which form an essential basis of evolutionary studies.

Contents:

Contents; List of Contributors; 1 The minimum evolution distance-based approach to phylogenetic inference; 2 Likelihood calculation in molecular phylogenetics; 3 Bayesian inference in molecular phylogenetics; 4 Statistical approach to tests involving phylogenies; 5 Mixture models in phylogenetic inference; 6 Hadamard conjugation: an analytic tool for phylogenetics; 7 Phylogenetic networks; 8 Reconstructing the duplication history of tandemly repeated sequences; 9 Conserved segment statistics and rearrangement inferences in comparative genomics; 10 The inversion distance problem

11 Genome rearrangements with gene families12 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?; Index

Notes:

Formerly CIP.

Previously issued in print: 2005.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

1-383-02950-4

1-280-84626-7

0-19-151373-3

1-4294-6927-7

OCLC:

437108880