Keywords:
Population genetics.
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Electronic books.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (539 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9789401005852
Series Statement:
Contemporary Issues in Genetics and Evolution Series ; v.8
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=3565726
Language:
English
Note:
Intro -- Contents -- An introduction to microevolution: rate, pattern, process -- The adaptive landscape as a conceptual bridge between microand macroevolution -- Possible consequences of genes of major effect: transient changes in the G-matrix -- Toward a new synthesis: population genetics and evolutionary developmental biology -- Epistasis, complex traits, and mapping genes -- Population structure inhibits evolutionary diversification under competition for resources -- Variation, selection and evolution of function-valued traits -- Why the null matters: statistical tests, random walks and evolution -- Rates of evolution on the time scale of the evolutionary process -- The pace of modern life II: from rates of contemporary microevolution to pattern and process -- Trends and rates of microevolution in plants -- The population ecology of contemporary adaptations: what empirical studies reveal about the conditions that promote adaptive evolution -- Explaining stasis: microevolutionary studies in natural populations -- Ring species as bridges between microevolution and speciation -- Microevolution in island rodents -- Genetic architecture of adaptive differentiation in evolving host races of the soapberry bug, jadera haematoloma -- Rapid evolution of wing size clines in Drosophila subobscura -- Insecticide resistance in the mosquito Culex pipiens: what have we learned about adaptation? -- High gene flow levels lead to gamete wastage in a desert spider system -- Integrating genetic and environmental forces that shape the evolution of geographic variation in a marine snail -- On morphological clocks and paleophylogeography: towards a timescale for Sorex hybrid zones -- A population founded by a single pair of individuals: establishment, expansion, and evolution -- Refugial isolation versus ecological gradients.
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Experimental studies of adaptive differentiation in Bahamian Anolis lizards -- Runaway social games, genetic cycles driven by alternative male and female strategies, and the origin of morphs -- Mechanisms of rapid sympatric speciation by sex reversal and sexual selection in cichlid fish -- Lateral plate evolution in the threespine stickleback: getting nowhere fast -- Sexual conflict and evolution in Trinidadian guppies -- A century of life-history evolution in grayling -- Evolution of chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) populations in New Zealand: pattern, rate, and process -- Adaptive divergence and the evolution of reproductive isolation in the wild: an empirical demonstration using introduced sockeye salmon.
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