Geographical genetics

Bryan K. Epperson

368 pages, parution le 26/09/2003

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Résumé

Population genetics has made great strides in applying statistical analysis and mathematical modeling to understand how genes mutate and spread through populations over time. But real populations also live in space. Streams, mountains, and other geographic features often divide populations, limit migration, or otherwise influence gene flow. This book rigorously examines the processes that determine geographic patterns of genetic variation, providing a comprehensive guide to their study and interpretation.

Geographical Genetics has a unique focus on the mathematical relationships of spatial statistical measures of patterns to stochastic processes. It also develops the probability and distribution theory of various spatial statistics for analysis of population genetic data, detailing exact methods for using various spatial features to make precise inferences about migration, natural selection, and other dynamic forces. The book also reviews the experimental literature on the types of spatial patterns of genetic variation found within and among populations. And it makes an unprecedented strong connection between observed measures of spatial patterns and those predicted theoretically. Along the way, it introduces readers to the mathematics of spatial statistics, applications to specific population genetic systems, and the relationship between the mathematics of space-time processes and the formal theory of geographical genetics.

Written by a leading authority, this is the first comprehensive treatment of geographical genetics. It is a much-needed guide to the theory, techniques, and applications of a field that will play an increasingly important role in population biology and ecology.

Space - Time Population Genetics
Geographical Patterns Observed in Nature
Ancient Events in Spatial - Temporal Processes
Spatial and Space - Time Statistics
Theory of Genetics as Stochastic Spatial-Temporal Processes
Synthesis: Tying Spatial Patterns among Populations to Space-Time Processes
Spatial Patterns Observed within Populations
Statistical Methods for Spatial Structure within Populations
Theory of Spatial Structure within Populations
Emerging Study
Literature Cited
Index

L'auteur - Bryan K. Epperson

Bryan K. Epperson is Professor of Population Genetics at Michigan State University.

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Princeton University Press
Auteur(s)	Bryan K. Epperson
Parution	26/09/2003
Nb. de pages	368
Format	14 x 21,5
Couverture	Broché
Poids	440g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780691086699
ISBN13	978-0-691-08669-9