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Reconstructing Evolution
New Mathematical and Computational Advances
Edited by Olivier Gascuel and Mike Steel
352 pages
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numerous line figures
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246x171mm
978-0-19-920822-7
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Hardback
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28 June 2007
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- A topical and timely text for postgraduates and researchers
- Contributions from leading researchers in the field
- Experienced and well-regarded editors
- Extensive references provided at the end of each chapter
Evolution is a complex process, acting at multiple scales, from DNA sequences and proteins to populations of species. Understanding and reconstructing evolution is of major importance in numerous subfields of biology. For example, phylogenetics and sequence evolution is central to comparative genomics, attempts to decipher genomes, and molecular epidemiology. Phylogenetics is also the focal point of large-scale international biodiversity assessment initiatives such as the 'Tree of Life' project, which aims to build the evolutionary tree for all extant species.
Since the pioneering work in phylogenetics in the 1960s, models have become
increasingly sophisticated to account for the inherent complexity of evolution. They rely heavily on mathematics and aim at modelling and analyzing biological phenomena such as horizontal gene transfer, heterogeneity of mutation, and speciation and extinction processes. This book presents these recent models, their biological relevance, their mathematical basis, their properties, and the algorithms to infer them from data. A number of subfields from mathematics and computer science are involved: combinatorics, graph theory, stringology, probabilistic and Markov models, information theory, statistical inference, Monte Carlo methods, continuous and discrete algorithmics.
This book arises from the Mathematics of Evolution & Phylogenetics meeting at the Mathematical
Institute Henri Poincaré, Paris, in June 2005 and is based on the outstanding state-of-the-art reports presented by the conference speakers. Ten chapters - based around five themes - provide a detailed overview of key topics, from the underlying concepts to the latest results, some of which are at the forefront of current research.Readership: Graduates and researchers in Mathematics, Statistics, Bioinformatics, and Biology.
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Edited by Olivier Gascuel, Laboratoire d'Informatique, de Robotique et de Microélectronique de Montpellier, and Mike Steel, University of Canterbury, New Zealand Contributors:
Elizabeth Allman (University of Alaska Fairbanks)
Cecile Ané (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Michaël Blum (Université Joseph Fourier & CNRS)
Alexei Drummond (University of Auckland)
Oliver Eulenstein (Iowa State University)
Greg Ewing (University of Auckland and Max F. Perutz Laboratories)
Joseph Felsenstein (University of Washington)
David Fernndez-Baca (Iowa State
University)
Olivier Gascuel (Centre National de la Recherche Scientific)
Stefan Grunewald (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Stephane Guindon (Centre National de la Recherche Scientific)
Luke Harmon (University of British Columbia)
Klaas Hartmann (University of Canterbury, New Zealand)
Stephen Heard (University of New Brunswick)
Katharina Huber (University of East Anglia)
Daniel Huson (University of Tübingen)
Junhyong Kim (University of Pennsylvania)
Michelle McMahon (University of Arizona)
Raul Piaggio-Talice (Iowa State University)
Arne O. Mooers (Simon Fraser University, Canada)
John Rhodes (University of Alaska Fairbanks)
Allen Rodrigo
(University of Auckland)
Michael Sanderson (University of Arizona)
Charles Semple (University of Canterbury, New Zealand)
Mike Steel (University of Canterbury, New Zealand)
Dennis Wong (University of New Brunswick)
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"I would recommend this book to phylogenetists who wish to have an overview on the topics covered herein. Biometricians or statisticians curious about evolutionary problems may find some inspiration in these pages aswell." - Biometrics
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O Gascuel and M Steel: Introduction
List of Contributors
I Evolution in populations
1: J Felsenstein: Trees of genes in populations
2: A Rodrigo, G Ewing, A Drummond: The evolutionary analysis of measurably evolving populations using serially sampled gene sequences
II Models of sequence evolution
3: O Gascuel and S Guindon: Modelling the variability of evolutionary processes
4: E Allman and J Rhodes: Phylogenetic invariants
III Tree shape, speciation and extinction
5: A Mooers, L Harmon, M Blum, D Wong, S Heard: Some models of phylogenetic tree shape
6: K Hartmann and M Steel: Phylogenetic diversity: from combinatorics to ecology
IV Trees from subtrees and characters
7: M Sanderson, C Ané, O Eulenstein, D Fernández-Baca, J Kim, M McMahon, R Piaggio-Talice: Fragmentation of large data sets in phylogenetic analyses
8: S Grünewald and K Huber: Identifying and defining trees
V From trees to networks
9: D Huson: Split networks and reticulate networks
10: C Semple: Hybridization networks
Index
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