Leigh Brown Harvey, Harvey

New Uses for New Phylogenies

Herausgeber: Smith, J. Maynard

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Recent advances in molecular genetics make the sequencing of genes a straightforward exercise. Comparisons of sequenced genes from different individuals of a species, or from different species, allow the construction of family trees or evolutionary trees which reveal genetic relationships. This volume shows for the first time how those trees, or phylogenies, can be used to answer questions about population dynamics, epidemiology, development, biodiversity, conservation, and the evolution of genetic systems. The techniques for deciding what these new trees can tell us come together in a unified framework so that a common set of methods can be applied, whatever area of biology interests the researcher.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Seitenzahl: 364
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Mai 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 553g
• ISBN-13: 9780198549840
• ISBN-10: 0198549849
• Artikelnr.: 21224225

Inhaltsangabe

* 1: What this book is about
* 2: New phylogenies: an introductory look at the coalescent
* 3: Genealogies and geography
* 4: The coalescent process and background selection
* 5: Inferring population history from molecular phylogenies
* 6: Applications of intraspecific phylogenetics
* 7: Inferring phylogenies from DNA sequence data: the effects of
sampling
* 8: Uses for evolutionary trees
* 9: Cross-species transmission and recombination of 'AIDS' viruses
* 10: Using interspecies phylogenies to test macroevolutionary
hypotheses
* 11: Using phylogenetic trees to reconstruct the history of infectious
disease epidemics
* 12: Relating geographic patterns to phylogenetic processes
* 13: Uses of molecular phylogenies for conservation
* 14: Testing the time axis of phylogenies
* 15: Comparative evolution of larval and adult life-history stages and
small subunit ribosomal RNA amongst post-Palaeozoic echinoids
* 16: Molecular phylogenies and host-parasite cospeciation: gophers and
lice as a model system
* 17: A microevolutionary link, between phylogenies and comparative
data
* 18: Comparative test of evolutionary lability and rats using
molecular phylogenies
* 19: Community evolution in Greater Antilean anolis lizards:
phylogenetic patterns and experimental tests
* 20: The evolution of body plans: HOM/Hox cluster evolution, model
systems, and the importance of phylogeny.