The Molecular Evolutionary Clock : Theory and Practice /

This book presents coverage of the principles and practice of molecular clocks, which have provided fascinating and unprecedented insights into the evolutionary timescale of life on earth. It begins by following the early development of the molecular evolutionary clock in the 1960s, and leads to the...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors:	Ho, Simon Y. W. (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2020.
Edition:	1st ed. 2020.
Subjects:	Evolutionary biology. Bioinformatics. Evolutionary Biology. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Part 1. Introduction
Chapter 1. The Molecular Clock and Evolutionary Rates Across the Tree of Life
Chapter 2. Molecular Evolution: A Brief Introduction
Chapter 3. Spontaneous Mutation Rates
Chapter 4. Causes of Variation in the Rate of Molecular Evolution
Part 2. Molecular Dating
Chapter 5. Principles of Molecular Dating
Chapter 6. Bayesian Molecular Dating
Chapter 7. Clock Models for Evolution of Discrete Phenotypic Characters
Chapter 8. Calibrations from the Fossil Record
Part 3. Calibrating Molecular Clocks
Chapter 9. Biogeographic Dating of Phylogenetic Divergence Times Using Priors and Processes
Chapter 10. Estimating evolutionary rates and timescales from time-stamped data
Chapter 11. Total-Evidence Dating and the Fossilized Birth-Death Model
Part 4. Phylogenomics
Chapter 12. Efficient methods for dating evolutionary divergences
Chapter 13. Bayesian Phylogenomic Dating. .