Molecular Evolutionary Genetics-- "The Scientist" |
Contents
Evolutionary History of Life | 8 |
Genes and Mutation | 19 |
Evolutionary Change of Amino Acid | 39 |
Evolutionary Change of Nucleotide | 64 |
Genomic Evolution | 111 |
Genes in Populations | 149 |
Genetic Variation Within Species | 176 |
Genetic Distance Between Populations | 208 |
DNA Polymorphism Within | 254 |
Phylogenetic Trees | 287 |
Deterministic | 327 |
Stochastic | 352 |
Implications for Evolutionary Theory | 404 |
Common terms and phrases
Acad allele frequencies amino acid sequences amino acid substitution average heterozygosity Biol branch lengths chapter chromosome codon computed consider divergence DNA sequences Drosophila Drosophila melanogaster electrophoretic equation estimate eukaryotic Evol evolutionary change figure fixation functional gene diversity gene frequency gene substitution genetic distance genetic drift genetic variability genome genotype given haplotypes hemoglobin heterozygosity homozygotes human introns Kimura large number linkage disequilibrium locus mating measure melanogaster method molecular evolution mtDNA mutation rate Natl natural populations natural selection neutral mutations nonsynonymous nucleotide differences nucleotide sequences nucleotide substitution number of amino number of genes number of loci number of nucleotide obtained occurs organisms overdominant pair phylogenetic tree polymorphism polypeptide population genetics probability Proc proportion protein protein polymorphism pseudogenes random rate of amino rate of nucleotide relationship restriction sites sample species studied subpopulations synonymous synonymous substitutions theory tion topology total number UPGMA variance variation
Popular passages
Page 435 - Bell, GI, Selby, MJ, and Rutter, WJ (1982). The highly polymorphic region near the human insulin gene is composed of simple tandemly repeating sequences. Nature, 295, 31-35.
References to this book
Molecular Evolution: A Phylogenetic Approach Roderick D.M. Page,Edward C. Holmes No preview available - 1991 |