Introduction to Evolutionary Genomics

• Main Author: Saitou, Naruya (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 2nd ed. 2018.
• Series: Computational Biology, 17
• Subjects: Bioinformatics.; Systems biology.; Microbial genetics.; Microbial genomics.; Plant genetics.; Animal genetics.; Computational Biology/Bioinformatics.; Systems Biology.; Microbial Genetics and Genomics.; Plant Genetics and Genomics.; Animal Genetics and Genomics.

This authoritative textbook/reference presents a comprehensive introduction to the field of evolutionary genomics. The opening chapters describe the fundamental concepts in molecular biology and genome evolution for readers without any prior background in this area. This is followed by a detailed ex...

Table of Contents:

• Part I: Basic Processes of Genome Evolution
• Replication, Transcription, and Translation
• Proteins
• Mutation
• Phylogeny
• Neutral Evolution
• Natural Selection
• Part II: Evolving Genomes
• A Brief History of Life
• Prokaryote Genomes
• Eukaryote Genomes
• Virus Genomes
• Vertebrate Genomes
• The Human Genome
• Part III: Methods for Evolutionary Genomics
• Genome and Transcriptome Sequencing
• Omic Worlds and their Databases
• Homology Search and Multiple Alignment
• Evolutionary Distances
• Phylogeny Construction
• Human Population Genomics.