Mathematics of Evolution and Phylogeny [Paperback]

This book considers evolution at different scales: sequences, genes, gene families, organelles, genomes and species. The focus is on the mathematical and computational tools and concepts, which form an essential basis of evolutionary studies, indicate their limitations, and give them orientation. Recent years have witnessed rapid progress in the mathematics of evolution and phylogeny, with models and methods becoming more realistic, powerful, and complex.

Aimed at graduates and researchers in phylogenetics, mathematicians, computer scientists and biologists, and including chapters by leading scientists: A. Bergeron, D. Bertrand, D. Bryant, R. Desper, O. Elemento, N. El-Mabrouk, N. Galtier, O. Gascuel, M. Hendy, S. Holmes, K. Huber, A. Meade, J. Mixtacki, B. Moret, E. Mossel, V. Moulton, M. Pagel, M.-A. Poursat, D. Sankoff, M. Steel, J. Stoye, J. Tang, L.-S. Wang, T. Warnow, Z. Yang, this book of contributed chapters explains the basis and covers the recent results in this highly topical area.

Introduction,Olivier Gascuel
1. The minimum evolution distance-based approach of phylogenetic inference,Richard Desper and Olivier Gascuel
2. Likelihood calculation in molecular phylogenetics,David Bryant, Nicolas Galtier, and Marie-Anne Poursat
3. Bayesian inference in molecular phylogenetics,Ziheng Yang
4. Statistical approaches to test involving phylogenetics,Susan Holmes
5. Mixture models in phylogenetic inference,Mark Pagel and Andrew Meade
6. Hadamard conjugation: an analytic tool for phylogenetics,Michael D. Hendy
7. Phylogenetic networks,Vincent Moulton and Katharina Huber
8. Recontructing the duplication history of tandemly repeated sequences,Olivier Gascuel, Denis Bertrand, and Olivier Elemento
9. Conserved segment statistics and rearrangement inferences in comparative genomics,David Sankoff
10. The inversion distance problem,Anne Bl#§