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Fifty Years of Genetic Load : An Odyssey /
In this personal history, one of the pioneers in population genetics recounts the evolution of his ideas about the effects of genetic variability on a population. Tracing the results of successive experiments over the years, it is, like the author's career, highly original.Bruce Wallace's...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca, NY :
Cornell University Press,
[2019]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE
- 1. INTRODUCTION
- 2. GENETIC VARIATION, DARWINIAN FITNESS, AND GENETIC LOAD
- 3. STUDIES OF IRRADIATED POPULATIONS
- 4. RANDOM MUTATIONS AND VIABILITY
- 5. DILEMMAS AND OPTIONS
- 6. HARD AND SOFT SELECTION
- 7. PERSISTENCE: AN IMPORTANT COMPONENT OF POPULATION FITNESS
- 8. SELF-CULLING AND THE PERSISTENCE OF POPULATIONS
- 9. SUMMARIZING REMARKS
- 10. STILL TO COME ...
- REFERENCES
- INDEX