Molecular Techniques in Taxonomy

By A. Johnston, Godfrey M. Hewitt, J. Peter W. Young

Book Overview

Taxonomy is fundamental to understanding the variety of lifeforms, and exciting expansions in molecular biology are re-volutionising the obtained data. This volume reviews the ma-jor molecular biological techniques that are applied in ta-xonomy. The chapters are arranged in three main sections:1)Overviews of important topics in molecular taxonomy; 2) Casestudies of the successful application of molecular methodsto taxonomic and evolutionary questions; 3) Protocols for arange of generally applicable methods. The described techni-ques include DNA-DNA hybridization, DNA fingerprinting, RFLPanalysis, and PCR sequencing.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3642839649
• ISBN13: 9783642839641
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 410 Pages
• Weight: 1.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.7" x 9.6"