Overview
- Fully revised and restructured new edition
- The definitive textbook on the field of evolutionary genomics
- Discusses in detail a series of genome sequence processing procedures
- Provides supplementary material at an associated website
Part of the book series: Computational Biology (COBO, volume 17)
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Basic Processes of Genome Evolution
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Evolving Genomes
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Methods for Evolutionary Genomics
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About this book
This authoritative textbook/reference presents a comprehensive introduction to the field of evolutionary genomics. The opening chapters describe the fundamental concepts in molecular biology and genome evolution for readers without any prior background in this area. This is followed by a detailed examination of genome evolution in various different groups of organisms. The text then concludes with a review of practical methods essential to researchers in the field.
This updated and revised new edition also features historical perspectives on contributions to evolutionary genomics from related fields such as molecular evolution, genetics, and numerical taxonomy.
Topics and features: introduces the basics of molecular biology, covering protein structure and diversity, as well as DNA replication, transcription, and translation; examines the phylogenetic relationships of DNA sequences, and the processes of mutation, neutral evolution, and natural selection; presents a briefevolutionary history of life, surveying the key features of the genomes of prokaryotes, eukaryotes, viruses and phages, vertebrates, and humans; reviews the various biological “omic” databases, and discusses the analysis of homologous nucleotide and amino acid sequences; provides an overview of the experimental sequencing of genomes and transcriptomes, and the construction of phylogenetic trees; describes methods for estimating of evolutionary distances, and performing studies of population genetics; supplies additional supporting material at an associated website.
Serving as an indispensable textbook for graduate and advanced undergraduate courses on evolutionary genomics, this accessible overview will also prove invaluable to researchers from both computer science and the biological sciences seeking a primer on the field.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Introduction to Evolutionary Genomics
Authors: Naruya Saitou
Series Title: Computational Biology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92642-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-92641-4Published: 07 November 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-06478-5Published: 22 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-92642-1Published: 25 October 2018
Series ISSN: 1568-2684
Series E-ISSN: 2662-2432
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XXV, 504
Number of Illustrations: 196 b/w illustrations, 38 illustrations in colour
Topics: Computational Biology/Bioinformatics, Systems Biology, Microbial Genetics and Genomics, Plant Genetics and Genomics, Animal Genetics and Genomics