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Data analysis in molecular biology and evolution /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Xia, Xuhua, 1959-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : Kluwer Academic, [2000]
Subjects:
Data Interpretation, Statistical.
Evolution, Molecular.
Molecular Biology.
Table of Contents:
  • Installation of DAMBE and a quick start
  • File conversion
  • Processing GenBank files
  • Accessing GenBank or networked computers
  • Pair-wise and multiple sequence alignment
  • Factors affecting nucleotide frequencies
  • Case study 1: arthropod phylogeny
  • Factors affecting codon frequencies
  • Case study 2: transcription and codon usage bias
  • Case study 3: translation and codon usage bias
  • Evolution of amino acid usage
  • Pattern of nucleotide substitutions
  • Preamble to the pattern of codon substitution
  • Factors affecting codon substitutions
  • Case study 4: transition bias
  • Substitution pattern in amino acid sequences
  • A statistical digression
  • Theoretical background of genetic distances
  • Molecular phylogenetics: concepts and practice
  • Testing the molecular clock hypothesis
  • Testing phylogenetic hypotheses
  • Fitting probability distributions.