Molecular Evolutionary Genetics

This volume in the Monographs in Evolutionary Biology series addresses issues that are part of an emerging area of research loosely called "molecular evolution. " Its practitioners include both molecular biologists cu­ rious about the evolutionary implications of their data and evolutionary biologists pushing their analyses to the molecular level. The union of these fields of molecular and organismal biology has been turbulent at times, and, as shall be seen, this dialectic has led to some ...