New Uses for New Phylogenies

Harvey, Paul H. (EDT)/ Brown, Andrew J. Leigh (EDT)/ Nee, Sean (EDT)

Oxford University Press（1996/05発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 360 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780198549840
• DDC分類 574.87322

Full Description

Now that scientists can sequences genes with relative ease, the relationships among living organisms are becoming better known. Those relationships are summarized as phylogenetic trees. This book reveals how those trees can be used to give insights into diverse fields of biological enquiry including ecology, epidemiology, development, conservation, and the evolutionary process itself.

Contents

1. What this book is about ; 2. New phylogenies: an introductory look at the coalescent ; 3. Genealogies and geography ; 4. The coalescent process and background selection ; 5. Inferring population history from molecular phylogenies ; 6. Applications of intraspecific phylogenetics ; 7. Inferring phylogenies from DNA sequence data: the effects of sampling ; 8. Uses for evolutionary trees ; 9. Cross-species transmission and recombination of 'AIDS' viruses ; 10. Using interspecies phylogenies to test macroevolutionary hypotheses ; 11. Using phylogenetic trees to reconstruct the history of infectious disease epidemics ; 12. Relating geographic patterns to phylogenetic processes ; 13. Uses of molecular phylogenies for conservation ; 14. Testing the time axis of phylogenies ; 15. Comparative evolution of larval and adult life-history stages and small subunit ribosomal RNA amongst post-Palaeozoic echinoids ; 16. Molecular phylogenies and host-parasite cospeciation: gophers and lice as a model system ; 17. A microevolutionary link, between phylogenies and comparative data ; 18. Comparative test of evolutionary lability and rats using molecular phylogenies ; 19. Community evolution in Greater Antilean anolis lizards: phylogenetic patterns and experimental tests ; 20. The evolution of body plans: HOM/Hox cluster evolution, model systems, and the importance of phylogeny.