Charles Semple, Mike Steel

Phylogenetics

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A flourishing area of interaction between mathematics, statistics, computer science and biology, "phylogenetics" is the reconstruction and analysis of phylogenetic (evolutionary) trees and networks based on inherited characteristics. The main role of phylogenetic techniques lies in evolutionary biology, where it is used to infer historical relationships between species. However the methods are also relevant to a diverse range of fields including epidemiology, ecology, medicine, as well as linguistics and cognitive psychology.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. März 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 167mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 530g
• ISBN-13: 9780198509424
• ISBN-10: 0198509421
• Artikelnr.: 22153520

Inhaltsangabe

Preliminaries
1: Graphs and their role in biology
2: X-trees and phylogenetic trees
3: Trees and splits
4: Compatibility of characters
5: Maximum Parsimony
6: Subtrees and supertrees
7: Tree-based metrics
8: Markov models on trees
References
Commonly-used symbols
Index