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Biological Evolution and Statistical Physics / edited by M. Lässig, A. Valleriani.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Lecture Notes in Physics, 0075-8450 ; 585
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Evolution (Biology).
- Statistical physics.
- Dynamics.
- Biophysics.
- Bioinformatics.
- Biomathematics.
- Evolutionary Biology.
- Complex Systems.
- Biological and Medical Physics, Biophysics.
- Mathematical and Computational Biology.
- Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems.
- Local Subjects:
- Evolutionary Biology.
- Complex Systems.
- Biological and Medical Physics, Biophysics.
- Bioinformatics.
- Mathematical and Computational Biology.
- Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (XII, 342 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2002.
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This set of lecture notes gives a first coherent account of a novel aspect of the living world that can be called biological information. The book presents both a pedagogical and state-of-the art roadmap of this rapidly evolving area and covers the whole field, from information which is encoded in the molecular genetic code to the description of large-scale evolution of complex species networks. The book will prove useful for all those who work at the interface of biology, physics and information science.
- Contents:
- Molecular information and evolution
- Statistical significance and extremal ensemble of gapped local hybrid alignment
- On the design of optimization criteria for multiple sequence alignment
- Red queen dynamics and the evolution of translational redundancy and degeneracy
- A testable genotype-phenotype map: modeling evolution of RNA molecules
- Evolutionary perspectives on protein structure, stability, and functionality
- Phylogeny
- The statistical approach to molecular phylogeny: Evidence for a nonhyperthermophilic common ancestor
- Principles of cophylogenetic maps
- Accounting for phylogenetic uncertainty in comparative studies of evolution and adaptation
- The‘ shape’ of phylogenies under simple random speciation models
- The evolution of populations and species
- Fitness landscapes
- Tempo and mode in quasispecies evolution
- Multilevel processes in evolution and development: Computational models and biological insights
- Evolutionary strategies for solving optimization problems
- Review of biological ageing on the computer
- Spatio-temporal modes of speciation
- Large-scale evolution
- Food web structure and the evolution of ecological communities
- Dynamics and topology of species networks
- Modelling macroevolutionary patterns: An ecological perspective.
- Notes:
- Based on papers from a workshop held in Dresden, Germany in 2000.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 3-540-45692-9
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