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Evolutionary genetics : from molecules to morphology /

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Other Authors: Lewontin, Richard C., 1929-, Singh, R. S., Krimpas, Kōstas V., 1932-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Subjects:
Genetics, Population.
Evolution, Molecular.
Table of Contents:
  • Sect. A. Population genetics: problems, foundations, and historical perspectives
  • The problems of population genetics / Richard Lewontin
  • The mathematical foundations of population genetics / Warren Ewens
  • A natural historian's view of heterosis and related topics / Bruce Wallace
  • The molecular foundation of population genetics / Rama S. Singh ... [et al.]
  • Sect. B. Molecular variation and evolution
  • The population and evolutionary genetics of codon bias / Martin Kreitman, Marcos Antezana
  • Gene conversion is a major determinant of genetic diversity at the DNA level / Andrew Berry, Antonio Barbadilla
  • Evidence for balancing, directional, and background selection in molecular evolution / Stephen W. Schaeffer, Montserrat Aguadé
  • Sect. C. Selection and genetic polymorphism
  • Aspects of fitness / Freddy Bugge Christiansen, Timothy Prout
  • How well does opposing selection maintain variation? / Timothy Prout
  • Analysis of selection in laboratory and field populations / Einar Árnason, J.S.F. Barker
  • Genetics of complex polymorphisms: parasites and maintenance of the major histocompatibility complex variation / Philip W. Hedrick, Timothy J. Kim
  • The population biology of antibiotic resistance / Bruce R. Levin
  • Sect. D. Linkage, breeding systems, and evolution
  • The equilibrium theory of one- and two-locus systems / Ian R. Frankline, Marcus W. Feldman
  • Inversion polymorphisms in Drosophila / Costas Krimbas, Jeffrey Powell
  • The evolution of breeding systems / Marcy K. Uyenoyama
  • The evolution of sex and recombination / Donal A. Hickey
  • Sect. E. Quantitative genetics and phenotypic evolution
  • Quantitative genetics and phenotypic evolution / Russell Lande
  • Nature of quantitative genetic variation / Richard Frankham, Kenneth Weber
  • The maintenance of genetic variation in life-history traits / Brian Charlesworth, Kimberly A. Hughes
  • Population genetics and life-history evolution / Lloyd Demetrius
  • Sect. F. Gene flow, population structure, and evolution
  • A coalescent view of population structure / Montgomery Slatkin
  • Population genetics and evolution of animal mitochondrial DNA / Eleftherios Zouros, David M. Rand
  • Genetic structure and evolution in parthenogenetic animals / E. Davis Parker Jr., Monica Niklasson
  • Genetic structure of prokaryotic populations / Frederick M. Cohan
  • Sect. G. Population genetics and speciation
  • Sexual selection in populations: the facts require a change in the genetic definition of the species / Hampton L. Carson
  • The role of selection in speciation / Judith Masters
  • The evolutionary genetics of speciation / Jerry A. Coyne, H. Allen Orr
  • Toward a unified theory of speciation / Rama S. Singh
  • Sect. H. Behavior, ecology, and evolution
  • From population genetics to evolutionary genetics: a view through the trees / Joseph Felsenstein
  • Attitudes to animal behavior / John Maynard Smith
  • The evolution of social behavior / Deborah M. Gordon
  • Population genetics and evolutionary ecology: a progress report / Subodh Jain.