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- Title
Entropy and Information Approaches to Genetic Diversity and its Expression: Genomic Geography.
- Authors
Sherwin, William B.
- Abstract
This article highlights advantages of entropy-based genetic diversity measures, at levels from gene expression to landscapes. Shannon's entropy-based diversity is the standard for ecological communities. The exponentials of Shannon's and the related "mutual information" excel in their ability to express diversity intuitively, and provide a generalised method of considering microscopic behaviour to make macroscopic predictions, under given conditions. The hierarchical nature of entropy and information allows integrated modeling of diversity along one DNA sequence, and between different sequences within and among populations, species, etc. The aim is to identify the formal connections between genetic diversity and the flow of information to and from the environment.
- Subjects
ENTROPY; GENETICS; BIODIVERSITY conservation; UNCERTAINTY (Information theory); NATURAL selection; GENETIC models
- Publication
Entropy, 2010, Vol 12, Issue 7, p1765
- ISSN
1099-4300
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/e12071765