1st Edition

Natural Selection Methods and Applications

By Mario A. Fares Copyright 2015
274 Pages
by CRC Press

252 Pages
by CRC Press

274 Pages
by CRC Press

A number of mathematical models and methods have been designed to identify the fingerprints of natural selection on genes and genomes. This book summarizes the knowledge in the field of methods to identify signatures of natural selection. The book presents the methods in a simple and direct way so that students of different disciplines can navigate through molecular fitness landscapes with only... Read more

The Role of Natural Selection in Evolution. Identifying Evolution Signatures in Molecules. Modelling Evolution of Molecular Sequences. Identifying Natural Selection with Molecular Data. Inferring Functional Divergence in Protein Sequences. The Influence of Recombination on the Estimation of Selection from Coding Sequence Alignments. Why Proteins Evolve at Different Rates: The Determinants of Proteins’ Rates of Evolution. The Network Framework of Molecular Evolution.

Biography

Fares, Mario A.