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Structural and evolutionary genomics : natural selection in genome evolution /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bernardi, Giorgio
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier, 2005.
Series:New comprehensive biochemistry ; v. 37.
Subjects:
Genomics.
Evolutionary genetics.
Gene mapping.
Selection, Genetic.
Evolution, Molecular.
Genome.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Lessons from a small dispensable genome, the mitochondrial genome of yeast
  • The organization of the vertebrate genome
  • The compositional patterns of vertebrate genomes
  • Sequence distribution in the vertebrate genomes
  • The distribution of integrated viral sequences, transposons and duplicated genes in the mammalian genome
  • The organization of chromosomes in vertebrates
  • The organization of plant genomes
  • The compositional patterns of the genomes of invertebrates, unicellular eukaryotesand prokaryotes
  • Gene composition and protein structure
  • The compositional evolution of vertebrate genomes
  • Natural selection and genetic drift in genome evolution : the neo-selectionist model