Molecular evolution and phylogenetics / Masatoshi Nei, Sudhir Kumar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nei, Masatoshi, author.

Kumar, Sudhir, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Molecular evolution--Statistical methods.

Molecular evolution.

Evolutionary genetics--Statistical methods.

Evolutionary genetics.

Phylogeny.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (348 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is a treatment of the statistical methods used in molecular evolution and phylogenetics study. Newly developed statistical methods for studying the molecular clock, adaptive evolution and inference of ancestral amino acid sequences are also included.

Contents:

Contents; Numerical Examples; 1 Molecular Basis of Evolution; 2 Evolutionary Change of Amino Acid Sequences; 3 Evolutionary Change of DNA Sequences; 4 Synonymous and Nonsynonymous Nucleotide Substitutions; 5 Phylogenetic Trees; 6 Phylogenetic Inference: Distance Methods; 7 Phylogenetic Inference: Maximum Parsimony Methods; 8 Phylogenetic Inference: Maximum Likelihood Methods; 9 Accuracies and Statistical Tests of Phylogenetic Trees; 10 Molecular Clocks and Linearized Trees; 11 Ancestral Nucleotide and Amino Acid Sequences; 12 Genetic Polymorphism and Evolution

13 Population Trees from Genetic Markers14 Perspectives; Appendices; References; Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2000.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-328) and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-770163-9

0-19-988122-7

9786610834372

1-280-83437-4

0-19-535051-0

OCLC:

428818307