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RECORD NUMBER: 24 OF 40Main Title | Molecular evolution / | |||||||||||
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Author | Li, Wen-Hsiung, | |||||||||||
Publisher | Sinauer Associates, | |||||||||||
Year Published | 1997 | |||||||||||
OCLC Number | 36059926 | |||||||||||
ISBN | 0878934634 (cloth); 9780878934638 (cloth) | |||||||||||
Subjects | Molecular evolution ; Evolution, Molecular ; Genetica ; Evolutie ; Moleculaire biologie ; âEvolution molâeculaire ; Gáene ; Phylogâenáese molâeculaire ; Sâequence nuclâeotidique ; Evolution ; Molekularbiologie | |||||||||||
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Collation | xv, 487 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. | |||||||||||
Notes | Includes bibliographical references (p. 437-474) and index. |
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Contents Notes | Molecular evolution: a brief history of the pre-DNA era -- Gene structure, genetic codes, and mutation -- Dynamics of genes in populations -- Evolutionary change in nucleotide sequences -- Estimating the number of nucleotide substitutions between sequences -- Molecular phylogenetics: methods, examples -- Rates and patterns of nucleotide substitution -- Molecular clocks -- DNA polymorphism in populations -- Evolution by gene duplication and domain shuffling -- Concerted evolution of multigene families -- Evolution by transposition and horizontal transfer -- Genome organization and evolution -- Roles of mutation and selection in molecular evolution. |