Name: New Uses for New Phylogenies von Paul H. Harvey (Reader in Biology, Reader in Biology, University of Oxford)
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New Uses for New Phylogenies Zusammenfassung

New Uses for New Phylogenies Paul H. Harvey (Reader in Biology, Reader in Biology, University of Oxford)

Now that scientists can sequences genes with relative ease, the relationships among living organisms are becoming better known. Those relationships are summarized as phylogenetic trees. This book reveals how those trees can be used to give insights into diverse fields of biological enquiry including ecology, epidemiology, development, conservation, and the evolutionary process itself.

New Uses for New Phylogenies Bewertungen

The chapters are concise ... but with plenty of references, and written with the authority of some of the major figures in molecular evolution. For me, the book was a gift. * Times Higher Education Supplement *
this volume comprises the most diverse collection of phylogenetic applications ever assembled in one place ... anyone who has followed the growth of phylogenetics' impact on evolutionary biology will be interested in the diversity of perspectives presented here. The papers in this volume collectively give the distinct impression that a rich discipline is approaching a turning point. * Michael J. Sanderson, University of California, Davis, TREE vol. 12, no. 5 May 1997 *

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

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GOR004334695

ISBN 13

9780198549840

ISBN 10

0198549849

Titel

New Uses for New Phylogenies Paul H. Harvey (Reader in Biology, Reader in Biology, University of Oxford)

Autor

Paul H. Harvey (Reader in Biology, Reader in Biology, University of Oxford)

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Gebraucht - Sehr Gut

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Broschiert

Verlag

Oxford University Press

Datum

1996-05-16

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360

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