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Author:   David A Liberles (Department of Molecular Biology, University of Wyoming, USA)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 19.40cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 25.20cm
Weight:   0.760kg
ISBN:  

9780199299188

ISBN 10:   0199299188
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   31 May 2007
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1: Steven A. Benner: The Early Days of Paleogenomics, Connecting Molecules to the Planet 2: Eric A. Gaucher: Ancestral Sequence Reconstruction as a Tool to Understand Natural History and Guide Synthetic Biology: Realizing and Extending the Vision of Zuckerkandl and Pauling 3: Janos T. Kodra, Marie Skovgaard, Dennis Madsen, and David A. Liberles: Linking Sequence to Function in Drug Design with Ancestral Sequence Reconstruction 4: Tal Pupko, Adi Doron-Faigenboim, David A. Liberles, and Gina M. Cannarozzi: Probabilistic Models and Their Impact on the Accuracy of Reconstructed Ancestral Sequences 5: Gina M. Cannarozzi, Adrian Schneider, and Gaston H. Gonnet: Probabilistic Ancestral Sequences Based on the Markovian Model of Evolution- Algorithms and Applications 6: Jonathan P. Bollback, Paul P. Gardner, and Rasmus Nielsen: Estimating the History of Mutations on a Phylogeny 7: F. Nicholas Braun: Coarse Projections of the Protein-Mutational Fitness Landscape 8: David D. Pollock and Belinda S. W. Chang: Dealing with Uncertainty in Ancestral Sequence Reconstruction: Sampling from the Posterior Distribution 9: Lesley J. Collins and Peter J. Lockhart: Evolutionary Properties of Sequences and Ancestral State Reconstruction 10: Mary J. O'Connell and James O. McInerney: Reconstructing the Ancestral Eukaryote- Lessons from the Past 11: Xun Gu, Ying Zheng, Yong Huang, and Dongping Xu: Using Ancestral Sequence Inference to Determine the Trend of Functional Divergence After Gene Duplication 12: Toni Gabaldon and Martijn A. Huynen: Reconstruction of Ancestral Proteomes 13: Etienne G. J. Danchin, Eric A. Gaucher, and Pierre Pontarotti: Computational Reconstruction of Ancestral Genomic Regions from Evolutionarily Conserved Gene Clusters 14: Eric A. Gaucher: Experimental Resurrection of Ancient Biomolecules: Gene Synthesis, Heterologous Protein Expression, and Functional Assays 15: Belinda S. W. Chang, Mikhail V. Matz, Steven F. Field, Johannes Muller, and Ilke van Hazel: Dealing with Model Uncertainty in Reconstructing Ancestral Proteins in the Laboratory: Examples from Ancestral Visual Pigments and GFP-like Proteins 16: Joseph W. Thornton and Jamie T. Bridgham: Unraveling the Evolution of Complexity by Resurrecting Ancient Genes 17: Dawn J. Brooks and Eric A. Gaucher: A Thermophilic Last Universal Ancestor Inferred from its Estimated Amino Acid Composition 18: Slim O. Sassi and Steven A. Benner: The Resurrection of Ribonucleases from Mammals. From Ecology to Medicine 19: Denis C. Shields, Kate Johnston, Iain M. Wallace, and Richard J. Edwards: Evolution of Specificity and Diversity

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This combination of theory and application is unusual and broadens the appeal of the book for researchers or for teachers of advanced seminars...This gives the book a light and readable quality Mark Pagel The Quarterly Review of Biology

This combination of theory and application is unusual and broadens the appeal of the book for researchers or for teachers of advanced seminars...This gives the book a light and readable quality * Mark Pagel The Quarterly Review of Biology *

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David A. Liberles is Assistant Professor at the Department of Molecular Biology, University of Wyoming, USA

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