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1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 310 Seiten)
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ISBN:
9780192566652
Content:
This book covers all the major components of modern evolutionary genetics including population genetics, molecular evolution, speciation, organismal evolution, and phylogenetics.
Content:
Cover -- Evolutionary Genetics: Concepts, Analysis, and Practice -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- CHAPTER 1: The foundations of evolutionary genetics -- 1.1 Concepts and ideas in a historical context -- 1.1.1 Evolutionary thoughts before Darwin -- 1.1.2 Evolution by natural selection-Darwin -- 1.1.3 Mendel and the origin of genetics -- 1.1.4 The mutation confusion -- 1.1.5 Theoretical population genetics -- 1.1.6 The modern synthesis of evolution -- 1.1.7 Toward molecular genetics -- 1.1.8 Diverging fields -- 1.2 Contemporary evolutionary genetics: toward a new synthesis -- 1.2.1 Molecular biology meets evolutionary genetics -- 1.2.2 The genotype-phenotype: map:opportunities and challenges -- 1.3 Generating molecular genetic data -- 1.3.1 Gel electrophoresis -- 1.3.2 Polymerase chain reaction -- 1.3.3 Restriction enzyme digestion -- 1.3.4 Sanger sequencing -- 1.3.5 High-throughput sequencing -- 1.4 Analyzing genetic data -- 1.4.1 Statistics and bioinformatics -- 1.4.2 Internet resources -- Study questions -- CHAPTER 2: Genomes and the origin of genetic variation -- 2.1 Genome structure -- 2.1.1 Genome organization in bacteria, archaea, and eukarya -- Genomes of bacteria -- Genomes of archaea -- Genomes of eukaryotes -- 2.1.2 Structure of the eukaryote genome-functional elements -- Protein coding genes -- RNA genes -- Non-transcribed functional DNA -- 2.1.3 Structure of the eukaryote genome-parasitic and non-functional DNA -- Parasitic DNA -- Nonfunctional DNA derived from transposition -- Origin of introns -- Other sources of nonfunctional DNA -- 2.2 Mutations -- 2.2.1 Random mutations -- 2.2.2 Point mutations -- 2.2.3 Replication slippage -- 2.3 Recombination and associated mutations -- 2.3.1 Recombination and reshuffling of alleles -- 2.3.2 Gene conversion -- 2.3.3 Unequal crossing over.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780198830924
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780198830917
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Sætre, Glenn-Peter Evolutionary genetics Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019 ISBN 9780198830924
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780198830917
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Sætre, Glenn-Peter Evolutionary genetics Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019 ISBN 9780191868993
Language:
English
Keywords:
Populationsgenetik
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