Ziheng Yang

Molecular Evolution

A Statistical Approach

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Produktbeschreibung

The book focuses on molecular evolution and phylogenetics, dealing with the statistical methods of data analysis implemented in commonly-used computer software.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 512
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 189mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 986g
• ISBN-13: 9780199602612
• ISBN-10: 0199602611
• Artikelnr.: 42381569

Autorenporträt

Ziheng Yang is currently RA Fisher Professor of Statistical Genetics in University College London. He obtained a Ph. D in agronomy in Beijing Agricultural University in 1992. Since then he held a few postdoctoral researcher positions in the UK and US. He joined UCL in 1997, first as a lecturer, then reader and professor. He teaches statistical genetics. He has published about 150 research papers and book chapters in molecular evolution, phylogenetics, population genetics, and computational biology. His program package paml is widely used in the molecular evolution community. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2006.

Inhaltsangabe

1: Models of nucleotide substitution
2: Models of amino acid and codon substitution
3: Phylogeny reconstruction: overview
4: Maximum likelihood methods
5: Comparison of phylogenetic methods and tests on trees
6: Bayesian theory
7: Bayesian computation (MCMC)
8: Bayesian phylogenetics
9: Coalescent theory and species trees
10: Molecular clock and estimation of species divergence times
11: Neutral and adaptive protein evolution
12: Simulating molecular evolution
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