Overview
- Comprehensive coverage of molecular clocks, evolutionary rates, and phylogenomic dating
- Up-to-date coverage of an important field that has evolved over the past six decades
- Authoritative reference, with book chapters contributed by leading experts in evolutionary biology
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About this book
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 complex statistical approaches that are now used to analyse genome sequences. The chapters of this book have been contributed by leading experts in the field and address the important issues of evolutionary rates, molecular dating, and phylogenomic analysis. This is the first time that these different aspects of the molecular clock have been brought together in a single, comprehensive volume. It is an invaluable reference for students and researchers interested in evolutionary biology, genetic analysis, and genomic evolution.
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Molecular Dating
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Calibrating Molecular Clocks
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Phylogenomics
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Simon Ho is a Professor of Molecular Evolution at the University of Sydney. His research interests include molecular evolution, phylogenetics, and molecular clocks. He previously worked at the Australian National University, after receiving his doctorate from the University of Oxford.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Molecular Evolutionary Clock
Book Subtitle: Theory and Practice
Editors: Simon Y. W. Ho
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60181-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-60180-5Published: 19 January 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-60181-2Published: 18 January 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 249
Number of Illustrations: 18 b/w illustrations, 30 illustrations in colour
Topics: Evolutionary Biology, Bioinformatics