Population Genomics: Microorganisms - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3030047555 ISBN 13: 9783030047559

Verlag: Springer, 2019

Inhaltsangabe

Population genomics is a rapidly emerging field that has the potential to transform our understanding of how evolutionary forces shape genomic diversity among microbes.  There have already been considerable advances in understanding gene flow and spread of adaptive traits, and in linking epidemiology with evolutionary biology. The current challenge is to find unifying evolutionary principles for organisms that display a wide range of reproductive biology – from highly clonal to promiscuous – and for which the vast majority have eluded cultivation.  This requires interdisciplinary approaches that incorporate novel computational tools, testing of existing and novel population genetic models, and creative new ways of linking genetic diversity to ecological factors. This pioneering book will discuss the advances made and promises of population genomics in microorganisms, outlining some of the key theoretical and practical challenges for microbial population genomics, including defining and identifying populations, genomics-based reverse ecology and building appropriate tools to understand microbes in a variety of complex environments.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Dr. Martin Polz

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Cambridge, MA
USA

Dr. Om P. Rajora

Professor

University of New Brunswick

Fredericton, NB E3C 5A3

Canada

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Springer
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 3030047555
• ISBN 13: 9783030047559
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 357
• Herausgeber: Polz Martin F., Rajora Om P.
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