Ecological Genetics / / ed. by Leslie Real.

• MitwirkendeR: Antonovics, Janis,; Lynch, Michael,; Lyxch, Michael,; Real, Leslie A.,; Slatkin, Montgomery,; Travis, Joseph,; Via, Sara,
• HerausgeberIn: Real, Leslie,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2017]; ©1994
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library ; 5186
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.) :; 59 line illus. 1 map

This volume represents work by five distinguished ecological geneticists, offering an up-to-date source for theoretical concepts and experiments in an exciting field. Combining ecological fieldwork and laboratory genetics, ecological genetics examines the adjustments and adaptations of wild populations to their environments. Articles focus on important interactions between genetics and population ecology, delving into issues like gene flow and migration, population differentiation, the maintenance of genetic variation, and the demographic and spatial structure of populations. The contributors--Janis Antonovics, Michael Lynch, Montgomery Slatkin, Joseph Travis, and Sara Via--emphasize the importance of population size and structure, interaction between local selection and genetic drift, and an expanded phenotype including quantitative as well as qualitative characters. This new form of ecological genetics focuses on large-scale geographic variation in demographic and genetic dynamics among small, partially isolated populations and will prove extremely valuable in natural resource management and in rare or endangered species conservation.Originally published in 1994.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- 1. Gene Flow and Population Structure -- 2. Cladistic Analysis of DNA Sequence Data from Subdivided Populations -- 3. The Evolution of Phenotypic Plasticity: What Do We Really Know? -- 4. Population Structure and Local Adaptation in a Clonal Herbivore -- 5. Neutral Models of Phenotypic Evolution -- 6. Evolutionary Genetics of Daphnia (with Ken Spitze) -- 7. The Interplay of Numerical and Gene-Frequency Dynamics tin Host-Pathogen Systems -- 8. Ecological Genetics of Metapopulations: The Silene-Ustilago Plant-Pathogen System (with Peter Thrall, Andrew Jarosz, and Don Stratton) -- 9 . Ecological Genetics of Life-History Traits: Variation and Its Evolutionary Significance -- 10. Evolution in the Sailfin Molly: The Interplay of Life-History Variation and Sexual Selection -- Index