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Animal genetics. Animal evolution --- Animal ethology and ecology. Sociobiology --- Birds

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This book brings together in one volume the current state of ageing research in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. The authors are leading researchers in the field, placing this topic in the context of human ageing, describing how and why basic discoveries in this simple organism have impacted our prospects for intervention in the ageing process. The authors cover a broad range of topics with regards to organismal and reproductive ageing including anatomical, physiological and biochemical changes, as well as genetic and environmental interventions that promote longevity and ameliorate age-related disease. Ageing is the single most important factor determining the onset of human disease in developed countries. With current worldwide demographic trends indicating that the number of individuals over the age of 65 will continue to rise, it is clear that an understanding of the processes that underpin ageing and age-related disease represents a key challenge in the biomedical sciences. In recent years there have been huge advances in our understanding of the ageing process and many of these have stemmed from genetic analysis of C. elegans. With no analogous book in this subject area this work will be of interest to a wide audience, ranging from academic researchers to the general public.

Genetics --- Histology. Cytology --- Animal genetics. Animal evolution --- Human biochemistry --- Geriatrics --- Human medicine --- medische biochemie --- geneeskunde --- genetica --- geriatrie --- cytologie --- histologie --- gerontologie

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This book presents 19 selected contributions to the 20th Evolutionary Biology Meeting in Marseille, which took place in September 2016. They are grouped under the following major themes: ·       Self/Nonself Evolution ·       Species Evolution and Evolution of Complex Traits ·       Methods and Concepts The aims of the annual meetings in Marseille – which bring together leading evolutionary biologists and other scientists using evolutionary biology concepts, e.g. for medical research – are to promote the exchange of ideas and to encourage interdisciplinary collaborations. Offering a revealing overview of the latest findings in the field of evolutionary biology, this book represents an invaluable source of information for scientists, teachers and advanced students alike.

Evolution. Phylogeny --- Genetics --- Plant genetics. Plant evolution --- Plant physiology. Plant biophysics --- Animal genetics. Animal evolution --- systematische plantkunde --- genomen (geneeskunde) --- medische genetica --- genetica --- Europees recht --- evolutieleer --- planten

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This unique textbook provides a clear and concise overview of the key principles of the complex field of phylogenomics, with a particular focus on sequencing technologies that are crucial to studying and understanding interrelations in evolutionary genomics. It includes chapters dedicated to the analysis of nucleotide sequences using assembling and alignment methods and also discusses the main strategies for phylogenetic studies, systematic errors and their correction. This highly readable textbook is intended for graduate students and young researchers with an interest in phylogenetics and evolutionary developmental biology.

Biomathematics. Biometry. Biostatistics --- Evolution. Phylogeny --- Genetics --- Animal genetics. Animal evolution --- Human genetics --- genomen (geneeskunde) --- medische genetica --- bio-informatica --- genomics --- genetica --- Europees recht --- biometrie --- evolutieleer

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In this book, we provide an easy introduction to Bayesian inference using MCMC techniques, making most topics intuitively reasonable and deriving to appendixes the more complicated matters. The biologist or the agricultural researcher does not normally have a background in Bayesian statistics, having difficulties in following the technical books introducing Bayesian techniques. The difficulties arise from the way of making inferences, which is completely different in the Bayesian school, and from the difficulties in understanding complicated matters such as the MCMC numerical methods. We compare both schools, classic and Bayesian, underlying the advantages of Bayesian solutions, and proposing inferences based in relevant differences, guaranteed values, probabilities of similitude or the use of ratios. We also give a scope of complex problems that can be solved using Bayesian statistics, and we end the book explaining the difficulties associated to model choice and the use of small samples. The book has a practical orientation and uses simple models to introduce the reader in this increasingly popular school of inference.

Mathematical statistics --- Mathematics --- Biomathematics. Biometry. Biostatistics --- Genetics --- Biology --- Animal genetics. Animal evolution --- Veterinary medicine --- Agriculture. Animal husbandry. Hunting. Fishery --- Computer science --- cyclohexanon --- diergeneeskunde --- Bayesian statistics --- biologie --- biostatistiek --- informatica --- landbouw --- genetica --- biometrie --- wiskunde --- gegevensanalyse