Population Genetics

Environmental Genomics (Methods in Molecular Biology) by: C. Cristofre Martin

Environmental Genomics (Methods in Molecular Biology) by: C. Cristofre Martin
Publisher: Humana Press | 18-01-2008 | ISBN: 1588297772 | 407 pages | 3.33 Mb
Environmental genomics seeks to predict how an organism or organisms will respond, at the genetic level, to changes in their external environment. These genome responses are diverse and, as a result, environmental genomics [...]

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Saturday, May 16th, 2009 Uncategorized No Comments

Phylogeography of Southern European Refugia

Phylogeography of Southern European Refugia
Publisher: Springer | ISBN: 140204903X | edition 2006 | PDF | 386 pages | 2,8 mb
Phylogeography of Southern European Refugia provides the first synthesis of the remarkable diversity, evolutionary complexity, and conservation importance of the flora and fauna in the Mediterranean region, with emphasis on the three major peninsular refugia. The [...]

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Thursday, May 14th, 2009 Uncategorized No Comments

Self Incompatibility in Flowering Plants: Evolution Diversity and Mechanisms

Self-Incompatibility in Flowering Plants: Evolution, Diversity, and Mechanisms
Publisher: Springer | Pages: 314 |2008-09-01 | ISBN 3540684859 | PDF | 8 MB
Great progress has been made in our understanding of pollen-pistil interactions and self-incompatibility (SI) in flowering plants in the last few decades. This book covers a broad spectrum of research into SI, with accounts by [...]

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Population Genetics

Population Genetics
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press | ISBN: 0801857554 | edition 1997 | PDF | 192 pages | 8,32 mb
“In a species with a million individuals,” writes John H. Gillespie, “it takes roughly a million generations for genetic drift to change allele frequencies appreciably. There is no conceivable way of verifying that [...]

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Thursday, May 14th, 2009 Uncategorized No Comments

Genes and DNA: A Beginner’s Guide to Genetics and Its Applications (RePosted)

Genes and DNA: A Beginner’s Guide to Genetics and Its Applications
Publisher: Columbia University Press | ISBN: 0231130120 | edition 2004 | PDF | 224 pages | 2,47 mb
Covering newsworthy aspects of contemporary biology — gene therapy, the Human Genome Project, DNA testing, and genetic engineering — as well as fundamental concepts, this book, [...]

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Wednesday, May 13th, 2009 Uncategorized No Comments

An Introduction to Genetic Algorithms (REPOST)

Melanie Mitchell, “An Introduction to Genetic Algorithms (Complex Adaptive Systems)”
The MIT Press | 1998-02-06 | ISBN: 0262631857 | 224 pages | DJVU | 1.9 MB
Genetic algorithms have been used in science and engineering as adaptive algorithms for solving practical problems and as computational models of natural evolutionary systems. This brief, accessible introduction describes some of [...]

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Wednesday, March 11th, 2009 Uncategorized No Comments

Molecular Ecology

Joanna R. Freeland “Molecular Ecology”
Wiley | 2006-01-18 | ISBN: 0470090618 | 400 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Molecular Ecology provides a comprehensive introduction to the many diverse aspects of this subject. The book unites theory with examples from a wide range of taxa in a logical and progressive manner, and its accessible writing style makes [...]

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Thursday, February 26th, 2009 Uncategorized No Comments

Evolution through Genetic Exchange

Publisher: Oxford University Press
Language: English
ISBN: 0199229031
Paperback: 272 pages
Data:2007
Format: PDF
Description: Even before the publication of Darwin’s Origin of Species, the perception of evolutionary change has been a tree-like pattern of diversification – with divergent branches spreading further and further from the trunk. In the only illustration of Darwin’s treatise, branches large and small never reconnect. However, [...]

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Tuesday, February 17th, 2009 Uncategorized No Comments

The Ecology of Language Evolution

The Ecology of Language Evolution
Cambridge University Press | 2001 | ISBN: 0521794757 | Pages: 274 | PDF | 4.20 MB
This major new work explores the development of creoles and other new languages, focusing on the conceptual and methodological issues they raise for genetic linguistics. Written by an internationally renowned linguist, the book discusses the nature [...]

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Saturday, February 7th, 2009 Technical No Comments

Rust Diseases of Willow and Poplar

Ming Hao Pei, Alistair R. McCracken “Rust Diseases of Willow and Poplar”
CABI | 2005-10-06 | ISBN: 0851999999 | 290 pages | PDF | 2,6 MB
There is increased interest in growing willow and poplar trees, as fast-growing species that have several purposes, including use as biofuels for energy production. However, silviculture is constrained by diseases such [...]

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Tuesday, January 27th, 2009 Business No Comments