Reconstructing Evolution
New Mathematical and Computational Advances
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 28 June 2007
- ISBN 9780199208227
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages352 pages
- Size 253x174x23 mm
- Weight 742 g
- Language English
- Illustrations numerous line figures 0
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Short description:
Evolution is a complex process, acting at multiple scales, from DNA sequences and proteins to populations of species. This collection of 10 chapters - based around five themes - provides a detailed overview of the key topics, from the underlying concepts to the latest results.
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Evolution is a complex process, acting at multiple scales, from DNA sequences and proteins to populations of species. Understanding and reconstructing evolution is of major importance in numerous subfields of biology. For example, phylogenetics and sequence evolution is central to comparative genomics, attempts to decipher genomes, and molecular epidemiology. Phylogenetics is also the focal point of large-scale international biodiversity assessment initiatives such as the 'Tree of Life' project, which aims to build the evolutionary tree for all extant species.
Since the pioneering work in phylogenetics in the 1960s, models have become increasingly sophisticated to account for the inherent complexity of evolution. They rely heavily on mathematics and aim at modelling and analyzing biological phenomena such as horizontal gene transfer, heterogeneity of mutation, and speciation and extinction processes. This book presents these recent models, their biological relevance, their mathematical basis, their properties, and the algorithms to infer them from data. A number of subfields from mathematics and computer science are involved: combinatorics, graph theory, stringology, probabilistic and Markov models, information theory, statistical inference, Monte Carlo methods, continuous and discrete algorithmics.
This book arises from the Mathematics of Evolution & Phylogenetics meeting at the Mathematical Institute Henri Poincaré, Paris, in June 2005 and is based on the outstanding state-of-the-art reports presented by the conference speakers. Ten chapters - based around five themes - provide a detailed overview of key topics, from the underlying concepts to the latest results, some of which are at the forefront of current research.
I would recommend this book to phylogenetists who wish to have an overview on the topics covered herein. Biometricians or statisticians curious about evolutionary problems may find some inspiration in these pages aswell.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
List of Contributors
I Evolution in populations
Trees of genes in populations
The evolutionary analysis of measurably evolving populations using serially sampled gene sequences
II Models of sequence evolution
Modelling the variability of evolutionary processes
Phylogenetic invariants
III Tree shape, speciation and extinction
Some models of phylogenetic tree shape
Phylogenetic diversity: from combinatorics to ecology
IV Trees from subtrees and characters
Fragmentation of large data sets in phylogenetic analyses
Identifying and defining trees
V From trees to networks
Split networks and reticulate networks
Hybridization networks
Index
