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Evolutionary bioinformatics / by Donald R. Forsdyke. — 2nd ed. — New York : Springer, c2011. – (58.17115/F732/2nd ed.) |
Contents
Contents
Note on Second Edition
Abbreviations
Prologue - To Select is Not to Preserve
Part 1 Information and DNA
1. Memory - A Phenomenon of Arrangement 3
2. Chargaff's First Parity Rule 27
3. Information Levels and Barriers 47
Part 2 Parity and Non-Parity
4. Chargaff's Second Parity Rule 69
5. Stems and Loops 91
6. Chargaff's Cluster Rule 111
Part 3 Variation and Speciation
7. Mutation 131
8. Species Survival and Arrival 153
9. The Weak Point 171
10. Chargaff's GC Rule 189
11. Homostability 205
Part 4 Conflict within Genomes
12. Conflict Resolution 221
13. Exons and Introns 249
14. Complexity 267
Part 5 Conflict, between Genomes
15. Self/Not-Self? 295
16. The Crowded Cytosol 319
Part 6 Sex and Error-Correction
17. Rebooting the Genome 341
18. The Fifth Letter 363
Part 7 Information and Mind
19. Memory - Where to Arrange and Where? 377
Epilogue To Preserve is Not To Select 391
Appendix 1 What the Graph Says 405
Appendix 2 Scoring Information Potential 411
Appendix 3 No Line? 415
Acknowledgments 425
References and Notes 429
Index 473