Overview
- This is the first book on population genomics – a fast-emerging fascinating discipline
- The book discusses key concepts, approaches and applications of population genomics addressing various fundamental and applied aspects in population genetics, evolution, ecology, conservation, breeding, and human health
- The book provides insights into a range of emerging topics including population epigenomics, landscape genomics, paleogenomics, ecological and evolutionary genomics, seascape genomics, biogeography, demography, speciation, admixture, colonization and invasion, genomic selection, and plant and animal domestication
- This book provides a reviews and synthesizes of key studies applying population genomics to a variety of organisms, from microorganism and plants to animals and humans
- The book is envisioned for a wide readership, including undergraduate and graduate students, research scholars, and professionals and experts in the field
Part of the book series: Population Genomics (POGE)
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Front Matter
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Concepts and Approaches
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Population, Evolutionary and Ecological Genetics Applications and Inferences
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About this book
Population genomics has revolutionized various disciplines of biology including population, evolutionary, ecological and conservation genetics, plant and animal breeding, human health, medicine and pharmacology by allowing to address novel and long-standing questions with unprecedented power and accuracy. It employs large-scale or genome-wide genetic information and bioinformatics to address various fundamental and applied aspects in biology and related disciplines, and provides a comprehensive genome-wide perspective and new insights that were not possible before. These advances have become possible due to the development of new and low-cost sequencing and genotyping technologies and novel statistical approaches and software, bioinformatics tools, and models.
Population genomics is tremendously advancing our understanding the roles of evolutionary processes, such as mutation, genetic drift, gene flow, and natural selection, in shaping up genetic variation at individualloci and across the genome and populations; improving the assessment of population genetic parameters or processes such as adaptive evolution, effective population size, gene flow, admixture, inbreeding and outbreeding depression, demography, and biogeography; resolving evolutionary histories and phylogenetic relationships of extant, ancient and extinct species; understanding the genomic basis of fitness, adaptation, speciation, complex ecological and economically important traits, and disease and insect resistance; facilitating forensics, genetic medicine and pharmacology; delineating conservation genetic units; and understanding the genetic effects of resource management practices, and assisting conservation and sustainable management of genetic resources.
This Population Genomics book discusses the concepts, approaches, applications and promises of population genomics in addressing most of the above fundamental and applied crucial aspects in a variety of organisms from microorganisms to humans. The book provides insights into a range of emerging population genomics topics including population epigenomics, landscape genomics, seascape genomics, paleogenomics, ecological and evolutionary genomics, biogeography, demography, speciation, admixture, colonization and invasion, genomic selection, and plant and animal domestication. This book fills a vacuum in the field and is expected to become a primary reference in Population Genomics world-wide.Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
University of New Brunswick
Fredericton, NB E3C 5A3
Canada
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Population Genomics
Book Subtitle: Concepts, Approaches and Applications
Editors: Om P. Rajora
Series Title: Population Genomics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04589-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-04587-6Published: 18 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-04589-0Published: 07 January 2019
Series ISSN: 2364-6764
Series E-ISSN: 2364-6772
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 822
Number of Illustrations: 25 b/w illustrations, 85 illustrations in colour
Topics: Plant Genetics and Genomics, Community & Population Ecology, Plant Breeding/Biotechnology, Plant Anatomy/Development, Plant Ecology, Health Promotion and Disease Prevention