Table of Contents

• Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Chapter 1 What is comparative genomics?
• Genomic comparison between Helicobacter pylori and its relatives
• Problems and hypotheses
• Testing the hypotheses by comparative genomics
• Genomic comparison between HIV-1 and HTLV-1
• Genomic comparison among Mycoplasma species
• Genomic comparison to characterize changes in tRNA and codon-anticodon adaptation
• The Met codon family
• UGA codon, CGN codon for Arg and the expanded wobble hypothesis
• Genomic strand asymmetry and genome replication
• Chapter 2 Comparative Genomics and the Comparative Methods
• The comparative method for continuous characters
• The comparative methods for discrete characters
• Studying variables individually – detecting genes that tend to be laterally transferred
• Studying association between variables
• Multiple comparisons and the method of false discovery rate
• Postscript
• Chapter 3 Comparative viral genomics: detecting recombination
• Is a particular genome a recombinant of N other genomes?
• General methods based on the compatibility matrix
• References
• Index

from: Xia, X., 2013. Comparative Genomics, Springer)