Evolution of Population Biology (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Singh, Rama S.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This 2004 collection of essays deals with the foundation and historical development of population biology and its relationship to population genetics and population ecology on the one hand and to the rapidly growing fields of molecular quantitative genetics, genomics and bioinformatics on the other. Such an interdisciplinary treatment of population biology has never been attempted before. The volume is set in a historical context, but it has an up-to-date coverage of material in various related fields. The areas covered are the foundation of population biology, life history evolution and demography, density and frequency dependent selection, recent advances in quantitative genetics and bioinformatics, evolutionary case history of model organisms focusing on polymorphisms and selection, mating system evolution and evolution in the hybrid zones, and applied population biology including conservation, infectious diseases and human diversity. This is the third of three volumes published in honour of Richard Lewontin.

---

Dieser Download kann aus rechtlichen Gründen nur mit Rechnungsadresse in A, B, BG, CY, CZ, D, DK, EW, E, FIN, F, GR, HR, H, IRL, I, LT, L, LR, M, NL, PL, P, R, S, SLO, SK ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Januar 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511162046
• Artikelnr.: 38201572

Autorenporträt

Rama Singh is Professor in the Department of Biology at McMaster University, Ontario.
Marcy Uyenoyama is Professor in the Department of Biology at Duke University, North Carolina.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; Part I. Historical Foundations and Perspectives: 1. Building
a science of population biology Richard Lewontin; 2. Toward a population
biology, still Richard Levins; Part II. Genotypes to Phenotypes: New
Genetic and Bioinformatic Advances: 3. Genetic dissection of quantitative
traits Trudy Mackay; 4. Gene expression profiling in evolutionary genetics
Daniel Hartl, Colin Meiklejohn, Cristian Castillo-Davis, Duccio Cavelieri,
José Ranz and Jeffrey Townsend; 5. Population biology and bioinformatics
Brian Golding; 6. Beyond beanbag genetics: Wright's adaptive landscape,
gene interaction networks and the evolution of new genetic systems Rama
Singh and Richard Morton; Part III. Phenotypes to Fitness: Genetics and
Ecology of Populations: 7. Density dependant selection Freddy Christiansen;
8. Non-synonymous polymorphisms and frequency-dependent selection Bryan
Clarke; 9. Why k=4Nµs is silly John Gillespie; 10. Inferences about the
structure and history of populations: Coalescents and intraspecific
phylogeography John Wakeley; 11. The population genetics of life-history
evolution Brian Charlesworth; 12. Gene-environment complexities: what is so
interesting to measure and to model? Peter Taylor; 13. Genus-specific
diversification of mating types Marcy Uyenoyama and Naoki Takebayashi; Part
III. Genes, Organisms and Environment: Evolutionary Case Studies: 14.
Adaptation, constraint, and neutrality: mechanistic case studies with
butterflies and their general implications Ward Watt; 15. Evolution in
hybrid zones Daniel Howard, Seth Britch, W. Evan Braswell and Jeremy
Marshall; 16. Nine relatives from one African ancestor: Population biology
and evolution of the Drosophila melanogaster subgroup species Daniel
Lachaise, Pierre Capy, Marie-Louise Cariou, Dominique Joly, Francoise
Lemeunier and Jean R. David; Part IV. Applied Population Biology:
Biodiversity and Food, Disease and Health: 17. Conservation biology: where
are we? Philip Hedrick; 18. The emergence of modern human mortality
patterns Shripad Tuljapurkar; 19. Units of selection and the evolution of
virulence Paul Ewald and Gregory Cochran; 20. Evolutionary genetics and
emergence of RNA virus diseases Edward Holmes; 21. A scientific adventure:
a fifty years study of human evolution Luigi Cavalli-Sforza; 22.
Geneticists and the biology of race, 1900-24 Will Provine.