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Author Fares, Mario A., author.

Title Natural selection : methods and applications / Mario A. Fares
Published Boca Raton : CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, [2015]

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations (chiefly color)
Contents 1. The role of natural selection in evolution / Mario A. Fares -- 2. Identifying evolution signatures in molecules / Mario A. Fares -- 3. Modeling evolution of molecular sequences / Mario A. Fares -- 4. Identifying natural selection with molecular data / Mario A. Fares -- 5. Inferring functional divergence in protein sequences / Mario A. Fares and Christina Toft -- 6. The influence of recombination on the estimation of selection from coding sequence alignments / Miguel Arenas and David Posada -- 7. Why proteins evolve at different rates : the determinants of proteins' rates of evolution / David Alvarez-Ponce -- 8. The network framework of molecular evolution / Ludovica Montanucci, Hafid Laayouni and Jaume Bertranpetit -- 9. Molecular coevolution : methods and applications / Mario A. Fares and Juan Pablo Labrador
Summary "This book summarizes the knowledge in the field of methods to identify signatures of natural selection. A number of mathematical models and methods have been designed to identify the fingerprints of natural selection on genes and genomes. Such methods are provided in a simple and direct way so that students of different disciplines can navigate through molecular fitness landscapes using complex methods with a basic knowledge on bioinformatics. A collection of the main methods to detect selection in protein-coding genes and amino acid sequences is given at different levels of complexity, from nucleotides to proteins and molecular networks. The importance of identifying natural selection in genes and genomes through the methods described in this book transcends the bioinformatics and computational biology fields, presenting applications for experimental biologists in a straightforward and understandable way"--Provided by publisher
Notes "A science publishers book."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (Ebsco, viewed December 17, 2014)
Subject Evolutionary genetics -- Methodology
Molecular evolution -- Methodology
Natural selection.
Molecular evolution.
Selection, Genetic
Evolution, Molecular
SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Biochemistry.
SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Genetics & Genomics.
Molecular evolution
Natural selection
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781482263732
1482263734
1482263726
9781482263725
9781322638089
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