Population Genetics and Evolution

Population Genetics and Evolution edited by Gerdina de Jong.

At least since the 1940s neo-Darwinism has prevailed as the consensus view in the study of evolution. The mechanism of evolution in this view is natural selection leading to adaptation, working on a substrate of adapta­ tionally random mutations. As both the study of genetic variation in natural pop...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Jong, Gerdina de (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 1988.
Edition:1st ed. 1988.
Series:Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Ecology .
Cell biology.
Zoology.
Plant science.
Botany.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The Place of Population Genetics in Evolutionary Biology
  • Is Population Genetics Necessary for the Theory of Evolution?
  • Population Genetics as a Core Theory
  • The Necessity of Population Genetics for Understanding Evolution: An Ecologist’s View
  • Unexploited Dimensions of Optimization Life History Theory
  • Theory of Phenotypic Evolution: Genetic or Non-Genetic Models?
  • Empirical Analysis of Sex Allocation in Ants: From Descriptive Surveys to Population Genetics
  • Fitness and Mode of Inheritance
  • Quantitative Genetics and Evolution
  • The Maintenance of Genetic Variation: A Functional Analytic Approach to Quantitative Genetic Models
  • Quantitative Genetic Models for Parthenogenetic Species
  • Quantitative Genetics of Life History Evolution in a Migrant Insect
  • The Evolution of Genetic Correlation and Developmental Constraints
  • Models of Fluctuating Selection for a Quantitative Trait
  • Development and Selection
  • Components of Selection: An Expanded Theory of Natural Selection
  • The Genetics of Information and the Evolution of Avatars
  • Sib Competition as an Element of Genotype-Environment Interaction for Body Size in the Great Tit
  • The Measured Genotype Approach to Ecological Genetics
  • Is Population Genetics in Its Present Scope Sufficient for a Theory of Evolution?
  • Adaptation
  • What Is the Progress Towards Understanding the Selection Webs Influencing Melanic Polymorphisms in Insects?
  • Ethanol Adaptation and Alcohol Dehydrogenase Polymorphism in Drosophila: From Phenotypic Functions to Genetic Structures
  • Multigenic Selection in Plantago and Drosophila, Two Different Approaches
  • The Functional Significance of Regulatory Gene Variation: The ?-Amylase Gene-Enzyme System of Drosophila melanogaster
  • Population Structure
  • Clonal Niche Organization in Triploid Parthenogenetic Trichoniscus pusillus: A Comparison of Two Kinds of Microevolutionary Events
  • Microgeographic Variation of Genetic Polymorphism in Argyresthia mendica (Lep.: Argyresthiidae)
  • The Significance of Sexual Reproduction on the Genetic Structure of Populations
  • Patch-Time Allocation by Insect Parasitoids: Superparasitism and Aggregation
  • Developmental Constraints
  • The Significance of Developmental Constraints for Phenotypic Evolution by Natural Selection
  • Selection on Morphological Patterns
  • Extrapolations
  • The Evolutionary Potential of the Unstable Genome
  • Consequences of a Model of Counter-Gradient Selection.

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