Distances in Biology

Michel Marie Deza and Elena Deza
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Michel Marie Deza: Ecole Normale Supérieure
Elena Deza: Moscow State Pedagogical University

Chapter Chapter 23 in Encyclopedia of Distances, 2014, pp 431-485 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Distances are mainly used in Biology to pursue basic classification tasks, for instance, for reconstructing the evolutionary history of organisms in the form of phylogenetic trees. In the classical approach those distances were based on comparative morphology, physiology, mating studies, paleontology and immunodiffusion. The progress of modern Molecular Biology also allowed the use of nuclear- and amino-acid sequences to estimate distances between genes, proteins, genomes, organisms, species, etc.

Keywords: Telomere Length; Spike Train; Genome Distance; Penetration Distance; Flight Initiation Distance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-662-44342-2_23

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