| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 229 pages) : illustrations. |
| Series |
Bioscience Oxford
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Bioscience Oxford.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-217) and index. |
| Contents |
Parsimony and phylogenetics in the genomic age / Victor A. Albert -- What is the rationale for 'Ockham's razor' (a.k.a. parsimony) in phylogenetic inference? / Arnold G. Kluge -- Parsimony and its presuppositions / Elliott Sober -- The logic of the data matrix in phylogenetic analysis / Brent D. Mishler -- Alignment, dynamic homology, and optimization / Ward C. Wheeler -- Parsimony and the problem of inapplicables in sequence data / Jan E. De Laet -- The limits of conventional cladistic analysis / Jerrold I. Davis, Kevic C. Nixon and Damon P. Little -- Parsimony and Bayesian phylogenetics / Pablo A. Goloboff and Diego Pol -- Maximum parsimony and the phylogenetic information in multistate characters / Mike Steel and David Penny -- Using phylogeny to understand genomic evolution / David A. Liberles -- Dollo parsimony and the reconstruction of genome evolution / Igor B. Rogozin [and others]. |
| Summary |
"This book examines the potential that parsimony analysis (cladistics) summarization method has for both structural and functional comparative genomic research"--Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Cladistic analysis.
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Genetics.
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Phylogeny.
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Models, Genetic. |
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Likelihood Functions. |
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Phylogeny. |
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Genomics. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Albert, Victor A. (Victor Anthony), 1964- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Parsimony, phylogeny, and genomics. Oxford, OX ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005 0198564937 (DLC) 2004026054 (OCoLC)56904569 |
| ISBN |
1423757084 (electronic bk.) |
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9781423757085 (electronic bk.) |
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9780191524080 |
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0191524085 |
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0198564937 (alk. paper) |
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9780198564935 (alk. paper) |
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9780199297306 (pbk.) |
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0199297304 (pbk.) |
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