Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction - Genes, Genetic Codes, and Mutation - Dynamics of Genes in Populations - Evolutionary Change in Nucleotide Sequences - Rates and Patterns of Nucleotide Substitution - Molecular Phylogenetics - Gene Duplication, Exon Shuffling, and Concerted Evolution - Evolution by Transposition - Genome Evolution - Appendix I. Timetables of Evolution - Appendix II. Basics of Probability - Literature Cited - Subject Index - Appendix I: Spatial and Temporal Frameworks of the Evolutionary Process - Appendix II: Basics of Probability - Literature Cited - Index - Taxonomic Index

Beschreibung

This acclaimed textbook has been updated to incorporate the many advances in genomics, protein engineering, computational biology and bioinformatics. In the Second Edition , the authors continue to explain evolutionary change at the molecular level in a way that can be understood without much prerequisite knowledge of molecular biology, evolution or mathematics.