The Evolution of Population Biology

by Rama S. Singh (Editor), Marcy K. Uyenoyama (Editor)

Overview

This collection of essays considers the foundation and historical development of population biology and its relationship to population genetics and population ecology. It also considers its relationship to the rapidly growing fields of molecular quantitative genetics, genomics and bioinformatics. Although set in historical context, the volume's up-to-date coverage of relevant material reveals the central role of population biology in all aspects of its connection to population genetics and population ecology.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521112116
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	06/11/2009
Pages:	492
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

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.

Editorial Reviews

'… will become required reading on undergraduate and graduate reading lists, as well as for researchers active in the field.' Biologist

'… an important milestone on the long way to major synthesis in our understanding of evolutionary population biology.' Folia Geobotanica

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