Research Catalog

Title

Comparative genomics : empirical and analytical approaches to gene order dynamics, map alignment and the evolution of gene families / edited by David Sankoff and Joseph H. Nadeau.

Author

Sankoff, David

Publication

Boston, MA : Kluwer Academic, 2000.

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Details

Additional Authors

Nadeau, J. H. (Joseph H.)

Description

xiii, 557 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Computational biology ; v. 1

Uniform Title

Computational biology ; v. 1.

Subjects

• Chromosome Mapping
• Gene mapping > Statistical methods
• Genomes
• Genome
• Physiology, Comparative

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Foreword / W. Ford Doolittle -- Comparative Genomics / David Sankoff and Joseph H. Nadeau -- 1. Mechanisms. Cytogenetics, Molecular Genetics, Population Genetics. Benefits of a Model of Segregation for the Understanding of Chromosomal Evolution / Thomas Faraut and Jacques Demongeot. Fixation of Chromosomal Rerrangements / Bryant F. McAllister. The Pathological Consequences and Evolutionary Implications of Recent Human Genomic Duplications / Christine O'Keefe and Evan Eichler. High Frequency of Inversions During Eukaryote Gene Order Evolution / Aoife McLysaght, Cathal Seoighe and Kenneth H. Wolfe. Human and Mouse DNA Sequence Comparisons: Further Evidence for a Mosaic Model of Genomic Evolution / Gord Brown, Duane Martindale and Michael D. Wilson / [et al.]. Hot Spots in Chromosomal Breakage: From Description to Etiology / Jacques Demongeot, Juglio Aracena and Samia Ben Lamine / [et al.] -- 2. Organelles: Mitochondria and Chloroplats. Rearrangements in Small Genomes.
• Chloroplast Gene Order and the Divergence of Plants and Algae, from the Normalized Number of Induced Breakpoints / David Sankoff, Melanie Deneault and David Bryant / [et al.]. An Empirical Comparison of Phylogenetic Methods on Chloroplast Gene Order Data in Campanulaceae / Mary E. Cosner, Robert K. Jansen and Bernard M. E. Moret / [et al.]. Gene Order and Phylogenetic Information / Cyril Gallut, Veronique Barriel and Regine Vignes. The Duplication/Random Loss Model for Gene Rearrangement Exemplified by Mitochondrial Genomes of Deuterostome Animals / Jeffrey L. Boore. MAPIT - A Semi-Automated Approach to the Representation of Genetic Maps / Alexander Nip, Lin Liu and Charbel Seif / [et al.] -- 3. Combinatorial Algorithms. A New Set of Problems for a New Kind of Data. Experimental and Statistical Analysis of Sorting by Reversals / Alberto Caprara and Giuseppe Lancia. The Syntenic Diameter of the Space of N-Chromosome Genomes / Jon Kleinberg and David Liben-Nowell.
• Circular Permutations and Genome Shuffling / Vineet Bafna, Donald Beaver and Martin Furer / [et al.]. The Complexity of Calculating Exemplar Distances / David Bryant. An Alternative Algebraic Formalism for Genome Rearrangements / Joao Meidanis and Zanoni Dias. Approximation Algorithms for the Medium Problem In the Breakpoint Model / Itsik Pe'er and Ron Shamir. Algorithms for Constructing Comparative Maps / Debra S. Goldberg, Susan McCouch and Jon Kleinberg -- 4. Prokaryotes. Genome Scrambling versus Functional Clustering. Dynamics of Gene Order Structures and Genomic Architectures / Siv G. E. Andersson and Kimmo Eriksson. Comparative Genome Analysis: Exploiting the Context of Genes to Infer Evolution and Predict Function / Peter Bork, Berend Snel and Gerrit Lehmann / [et al.] -- 5. Statistics. The Quantification of Comparative Mapping. Accuracy and Robustness of Analyses Based on Numbers of Genes in Observed Segments / David Sankoff, Marie-Noelle Parent and David Bryant.
• Marker Density and Estimates of Chromosome Rearrangement / Daniel J. Schoen. Estimating the Number of Conserved Segments Between Species Using a Chromosome Based Model / David Waddington. CHROMTREE: Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Chromosomal Phylogenies / Jo Dicks -- 6. Nuclear Genomes. Evolutionary Inference from Comparative Mapping. Evolution of Karyotype Organisation in Accipitridae: a Translocation Model / Bertrand Bed'Hom. Syntenies of Unrelated Genes Conserved in Mammals and Nonvertebrates (A Review) / Zdenek Trachtulec and Jiri Forejt. Companion Animal Genetics / Leslie A. Lyons. The Essential Role of Comparative Maps in Livestock Genomics / James E. Womack. Comparative Genetics: From Hexaploid Wheat to Arabidopsis / Katrien M. Devos. Unraveling Crucifer Genomes Through Comparative Mapping / Isobel Parkin. Comparative Genomics of Plant Chromosomes / Andrew H. Paterson, John E. Bowers and Mark D. Burow / [et al.] -- 7. Gene and Genome Duplication and Multi-gene Families.
• How Can Duplication be Analyzed? Recovery of Ancestral Tetraploids / Nodia El-Mabrouk. Genome Archaeology: Detecting Ancient Polyploidy in Contemporary Genomes / Todd J. Vision and Daniel G. Brown. Polyploidization and Vertebrate Origins: A Review of the Evidence / Austin L. Hughes. A Formal Model of Genomic DNA Multiplication and Amplification / Jerzy Tiuryn, Jan P. Radomski and Piotr P. Slonimski. A Simple Evolutionary Model for Genome Phylogeny Based on Gene Content / Xun Gu. GeneTree: A Tool for Exploring Gene Family Evolution / Roderic D. M. Page and James A. Cotton. Duplication, Rearrangements, and Reconciliation / David Sankoff and Nadia El-Mabrouk.

ISBN

0792365836 (hb : acid-free paper)

LCCN

00060052

OCLC

• 50666952
• ocm50666952
• SCSB-4789724

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries