Probability Models for DNA Sequence Evolution

• Main Author: Durrett, Richard (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2008.
• Series: Probability and its Applications,
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Biochemistry.; Evolutionary biology.; Probabilities.; Biomathematics.; Statistics.; Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes.; Evolutionary Biology.; Biochemistry, general.; Statistics for Life Sciences, Medicine, Health Sciences.; Mathematical and Computational Biology.; Genetics and Population Dynamics.

How is genetic variability shaped by natural selection, demographic factors, and random genetic drift? To approach this question, we introduce and analyze a number of probability models beginning with the basics, and ending at the frontiers of current research. Throughout the book, the theory is dev...

Table of Contents:

• Basic Models
• Estimation and Hypothesis Testing
• Recombination
• Population Complications
• Stepping Stone Model
• Natural Selection
• Diffusion Processes
• Multidimensional Diffusions
• Genome Rearrangement.