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This book explains the essential concepts underlying the storage and manipulation of genomics level data, construction of phylogenetic trees, population genetics, natural selection, the tree of life, DNA barcoding, and metagenomics. The inclusion of problem-solving exercises in each chapter provides students with a solid grasp of the important molecular and evolutionary questions facing modern biologists as well as the tools needed to answer them. December 2012 • 352 Pages •160 Illustrations Paperback • 9780815342113 • £38.00 CONTENTS: 1. Why Phylogenomics Matters 2. The Biology of Linear Molecules (DNA and Proteins) 3. Evolutionary Principles – Populations and Trees 4. Databases 5. Homology and Pairwise Alignment 6. Multiple Alignments and Constructing Phylogenomic Matrices7. Genome Sequencing and Annotation 8. Tree Building 9. Robustness and Rate Heterogeneity in Phylogenomics 10. Bayesian Analysis 11. Incongruence 12. Adapting Population Genetics to Genomics 13. 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