Bacterial Population Genetics in Infectious Disease

Pages: 420,
Specialty: Infectious Disease,
Publisher: Wiley,
Publication Year: 2010,
Cover: Hardback,
Dimensions: 182x256x26mm

This book is a unique synthesis of the major concepts and methods in bacterial population genetics in infectious disease, a field that is now about 35 yrs old. Emphasis is given to explaining population-level processes that shape genetic variation in bacterial populations and statistical methods of analysis of bacterial genetic data. * A "how to" of bacterial population genetics, which covers an extremely large range of organisms * Expanding area of science due to high-throughput genome sequencing of bacterial pathogens * Covers both fundamental approaches to analyzing bacterial population structures with conceptual background in bacterial population biology * Detailed treatment of statistical methodsshow more