Biological Evolution and Statistical Physics

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Lässig, M. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Valleriani, A. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2002.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2002.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Physics, 585
• Subjects: Evolutionary biology.; Statistical physics.; Dynamical systems.; Biophysics.; Biological physics.; Bioinformatics.; Biomathematics.; Evolutionary Biology.; Complex Systems.; Biological and Medical Physics, Biophysics.; Mathematical and Computational Biology.; Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems.

This set of lecture notes gives a first coherent account of a novel aspect of the living world that can be called biological information. The book presents both a pedagogical and state-of-the art roadmap of this rapidly evolving area and covers the whole field, from information which is encoded in t...

Table of Contents:

• Molecular information and evolution
• Statistical significance and extremal ensemble of gapped local hybrid alignment
• On the design of optimization criteria for multiple sequence alignment
• Red queen dynamics and the evolution of translational redundancy and degeneracy
• A testable genotype-phenotype map: modeling evolution of RNA molecules
• Evolutionary perspectives on protein structure, stability, and functionality
• Phylogeny
• The statistical approach to molecular phylogeny: Evidence for a nonhyperthermophilic common ancestor
• Principles of cophylogenetic maps
• Accounting for phylogenetic uncertainty in comparative studies of evolution and adaptation
• The' shape' of phylogenies under simple random speciation models
• The evolution of populations and species
• Fitness landscapes
• Tempo and mode in quasispecies evolution
• Multilevel processes in evolution and development: Computational models and biological insights
• Evolutionary strategies for solving optimization problems
• Review of biological ageing on the computer
• Spatio-temporal modes of speciation
• Large-scale evolution
• Food web structure and the evolution of ecological communities
• Dynamics and topology of species networks
• Modelling macroevolutionary patterns: An ecological perspective.