Selection : the mechanism of evolution

Selection : the mechanism of evolution / Graham Bell.

This text adopts a direct experimental approach to evolutionary questions, drawing predominantly from research on microbial systems. The focus is on processes and mechanisms, and incorporates insights from recent advances in whole-genome sequencing, bioinformatics, environmental genomics and develop...

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Main Author: Bell, Graham, 1949-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Edition:2nd ed.
Series:Oxford biology.
Subjects:
Natural selection.
Evolution (Biology)
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Evolution.
Natural selection
Natuurlijke selectie.
Evolutie.
dissertations.
Academic theses.
Thèses et écrits académiques.
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Table of Contents:
  • 7. Natural selection in open populations
  • 7.1. Fitness in natural populations
  • 7.2. Phenotypic selection
  • 7.3. Selection experiments in the field
  • 7.4. Adaptation to the humanized landscape
  • 7.5. The ghost of selection past
  • 8. Adaptive radiation : diversity and specialization
  • 8.1. Adaptive and non-adaptive radiation
  • 8.2. G X E
  • 8.3. Specialization and generalization
  • 8.4. Opportunities in space : obligations in time
  • 8.5. Local adaptation
  • 9. Autoselection : selfish genetic elements
  • 9.1. Infection
  • 9.2. Interference
  • 9.3. Gonotaxis
  • 10. Social selection
  • 10.1. Selection within a single uniform population : density-dependent selection
  • 10.2. Selection within a single diverse population : frequency-dependent selection
  • 10.3. Social behaviour
  • 10.4. Kin selection and group selection
  • 11. Co-evolution
  • 11.1. Rivals
  • 11.2. Partners
  • 11.3. Enemies
  • 11.4. Ecosystems
  • 12. Sexual selection
  • 12.1. Evolution of sex
  • 12.2. The alternation of generations
  • 12.3. Gender
  • 12.4. Beauty and the beast
  • 13. Speciation
  • 13.1. Speciation and diversification
  • 13.2. Experimental speciation
  • 13.3. Emerging species
  • 14. Epitome
  • References
  • Index.
  • The second science
  • 1. Simple selection
  • 2. The genetic and ecological context of selection
  • 2.1. History, chance, and necessity
  • 2.2. The rate of genetic deterioration
  • 2.3. The rate of environmental deterioration
  • 3. Natural selection in closed asexual populations
  • 3.1. Microcosmologia
  • 3.2. Sorting : selection or pre-existing variation
  • 3.3. Purifying selection : maintaining adaptedness despite genetic deterioration
  • 3.4. Directional selection : restoring adaptedness despite environmental deterioration
  • 3.5. Successive substitution
  • 3.6. Cumulative adaptation
  • 3.7. Successive substitution at several loci
  • 4. Prometheus unbound : releasing the constraints on natural selection
  • 4.1. Increasing the mutation rate
  • 4.2. Horizontal transmission
  • 4.3. Sex
  • 4.4. Dispersal
  • 5. Selection in multicellular organisms
  • 5.1. Size matters
  • 5.2. Reproductive allocation
  • 5.3. Life histories
  • 6. Artificial selection
  • 6.1. Selection acting on quantitative variation
  • 6.2. Generations 1-10 : the short-term response
  • 6.3. Generations 10-1000 : the limits to selection
  • g 6.4. Generations 100 up : new kinds of creatures.

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