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 basic knowledge of bioinformatics. The book explores different levels of complexity, from nucleotides to proteins and molecular networks.
Zusammenfassung
This book summarizes the knowledge in the field of methods to identify signatures of natural selection. A number of mathematical models and methods have been designed to identify the fingerprints of natural selection on genes and genomes. Such methods are provided in a simple and direct way so that students of different disciplines can navigate thr
Inhalt
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.