Adaptive evolution of genes and genomes / Austin L. Hughes
Imprint
New York : Oxford University Press, 1999
Descript
ix, 270 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
CONTENT
1. What Is Adaptive Evolution? -- 2. Methods of Sequence Analysis -- 3. The Neutral Theory -- 4. Balancing Selection: The Major Histocompatibility Complex -- 5. Other Examples of Balancing Selection -- 6. Directional Selection -- 7. Evolution of New Protein Function -- 8. Adaptive Characteristics of Genomes -- 9. Conclusions