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Zusatztext Aimed at mathematicians, computer scientists, and statisticians, the book should serve them well as an introduction to phylogenies. Klappentext 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 this area, with models and methods becoming more realistic, powerful, and complex. This book of contributed chapters is authored by renowned scientists and covers recent results in the highly topical area of mathematics in evolution and phylogeny. Each chapter is a detailed overview of a specific topic, from the underlying concepts to the latest results. Aimed at graduates and researchers in phylogenetics, this book will be of interest to both mathematicians and biologists. Zusammenfassung This book of contributed chapters is authored by renowned scientists and covers recent results in the highly topical area of mathematics in evolution and phylogeny. Each chapter is a detailed overview of a specific topic, from the underlying concepts to the latest results. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1: Richard Desper and Olivier Gascuel: The minimum evolution distance-based approach of phylogenetic inference 2: David Bryant, Nicolas Galtier, and Marie-Anne Poursat: Likelihood calculation in molecular phylogenetics 3: Ziheng Yang: Bayesian inference in molecular phylogenetics 4: Susan Holmes: Statistical approaches to test involving phylogenetics 5: Mark Pagel and Andrew Meade: Mixture models in phylogenetic inference 6: Michael D. Hendy: Hadamard conjugation: an analytic tool for phylogenetics 7: Vincent Moulton and Katharina Huber: Phylogenetic networks 8: Olivier Gascuel, Denis Bertrand, and Olivier Elemento: Recontructing the duplication history of tandemly repeated sequences 9: David Sankoff: Conserved segment statistics and rearrangement inferences in comparative genomics 10: Anne Bergeron, Julia Mixtacki, and Jens Stoye: The inversion distance problem 11: Nadia El-Mabrouk: Genome rearrangement with gene families 12: Bernard M.E. Moret, Jijun Tang, and Tandy Warnow: Reconstructing phylogenies from gene-content and gene-order data 13: Li-San Wang and Tandy Warnow: Distance-based genome rearrangement phylogeny 14: Elchanan Mossel and Mike Steel: How much can evolved characters tell us about the tree that generated them? ...
