New Uses for New Phylogenies

TRAMA

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.

NOTE EDITORE

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.

SOMMARIO

1 - What this book is about2 - New phylogenies: an introductory look at the coalescent3 - Genealogies and geography4 - The coalescent process and background selection5 - Inferring population history from molecular phylogenies6 - Applications of intraspecific phylogenetics7 - Inferring phylogenies from DNA sequence data: the effects of sampling8 - Uses for evolutionary trees9 - Cross-species transmission and recombination of 'AIDS' viruses10 - Using interspecies phylogenies to test macroevolutionary hypotheses11 - Using phylogenetic trees to reconstruct the history of infectious disease epidemics12 - Relating geographic patterns to phylogenetic processes13 - Uses of molecular phylogenies for conservation14 - Testing the time axis of phylogenies15 - Comparative evolution of larval and adult life-history stages and small subunit ribosomal RNA amongst post-Palaeozoic echinoids16 - Molecular phylogenies and host-parasite cospeciation: gophers and lice as a model system17 - A microevolutionary link, between phylogenies and comparative data18 - Comparative test of evolutionary lability and rats using molecular phylogenies19 - Community evolution in Greater Antilean anolis lizards: phylogenetic patterns and experimental tests20 - The evolution of body plans: HOM/Hox cluster evolution, model systems, and the importance of phylogeny.

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780198549840
• Dimensioni: 234 x 20.0 x 157 mm Ø 1 gr
• Formato: Brossura
• Illustration Notes: numerous line illustrations, tables
• Pagine Arabe: 360