Year: 2009
ISBN: 978-5-9963-0114-0
Pages: 256
Subject: Biology
Format: 145 õ 215 ìì
Cover: Hardcover
The book contains a broad spectrum of theoretical and practical issues of the molecular evolution and phylogenetic analysis: the principles, goals and terminology; sequence alignment; evolutionary models and genetic distances; phylogenetic tree building methods. Recombination analysis, nucleotide and amino acid composition, codon usage, the analysis of mitochondrial DNA and molecular clock are described in the book. Special attention is given to the role of evolutionary analysis in studying the epidemiology of infectious disease – molecular epidemiology. All these issues are considered using actual experimental data. A reader would also find information about computer programmes used in the evolutionary analysis.
This book is written by the author who is Associate Professor of the University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands) and senior researcher of the D.I. Ivanovsky Institute of Virology (Moscow, Russia).
The book is intended for pre- and postgraduate students as well as researchers.
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