Molecular Evolution and Phylogenetics - Hardcover

Nei, Masatoshi; Kumar, Sudhir

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195135849 ISBN 13: 9780195135848

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2000

Synopsis

During the last ten years, remarkable progress has occurred in the study of molecular evolution. Among the most important factors that are responsible for this progress are the development of new statistical methods and advances in computational technology. In particular, phylogenetic analysis of DNA or protein sequences has become a powerful tool for studying molecular evolution. Along with this developing technology, the application of the new statistical and computational methods has become more complicated and there is no comprehensive volume that treats these methods in depth. Molecular Evolution and Phylogenetics fills this gap and present various statistical methods that are easily accessible to general biologists as well as biochemists, bioinformatists and graduate students. The text covers measurement of sequence divergence, construction of phylogenetic trees, statistical tests for detection of positive Darwinian selection, inference of ancestral amino acid sequences, construction of linearized trees, and analysis of allele frequency data. Emphasis is given to practical methods of data analysis, and methods can be learned by working through numerical examples using the computer program MEGA2 that is provided.

About this title

About the Author:

Masatoshi Nei, Evan Pugh Professor of Biology, and Director, Institute of Molecular Evolutionary Genetics, Pennsylvania State University. Sudhir Kumar, Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Arizona State University.

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About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0195135849
• ISBN 13: 9780195135848
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 333