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Selection : the mechanism of evolution /
This text adopts a direct experimental approach to evolutionary questions, drawing predominantly from research on microbial systems. The focus is on processes and mechanisms, and incorporates insights from recent advances in whole-genome sequencing, bioinformatics, environmental genomics and develop...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2008.
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| Edición: | 2nd ed. |
| Colección: | Oxford biology.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 7. Natural selection in open populations
- 7.1. Fitness in natural populations
- 7.2. Phenotypic selection
- 7.3. Selection experiments in the field
- 7.4. Adaptation to the humanized landscape
- 7.5. The ghost of selection past
- 8. Adaptive radiation : diversity and specialization
- 8.1. Adaptive and non-adaptive radiation
- 8.2. G X E
- 8.3. Specialization and generalization
- 8.4. Opportunities in space : obligations in time
- 8.5. Local adaptation
- 9. Autoselection : selfish genetic elements
- 9.1. Infection
- 9.2. Interference
- 9.3. Gonotaxis
- 10. Social selection
- 10.1. Selection within a single uniform population : density-dependent selection
- 10.2. Selection within a single diverse population : frequency-dependent selection
- 10.3. Social behaviour
- 10.4. Kin selection and group selection
- 11. Co-evolution
- 11.1. Rivals
- 11.2. Partners
- 11.3. Enemies
- 11.4. Ecosystems
- 12. Sexual selection
- 12.1. Evolution of sex
- 12.2. The alternation of generations
- 12.3. Gender
- 12.4. Beauty and the beast
- 13. Speciation
- 13.1. Speciation and diversification
- 13.2. Experimental speciation
- 13.3. Emerging species
- 14. Epitome
- References
- Index.
- The second science
- 1. Simple selection
- 2. The genetic and ecological context of selection
- 2.1. History, chance, and necessity
- 2.2. The rate of genetic deterioration
- 2.3. The rate of environmental deterioration
- 3. Natural selection in closed asexual populations
- 3.1. Microcosmologia
- 3.2. Sorting : selection or pre-existing variation
- 3.3. Purifying selection : maintaining adaptedness despite genetic deterioration
- 3.4. Directional selection : restoring adaptedness despite environmental deterioration
- 3.5. Successive substitution
- 3.6. Cumulative adaptation
- 3.7. Successive substitution at several loci
- 4. Prometheus unbound : releasing the constraints on natural selection
- 4.1. Increasing the mutation rate
- 4.2. Horizontal transmission
- 4.3. Sex
- 4.4. Dispersal
- 5. Selection in multicellular organisms
- 5.1. Size matters
- 5.2. Reproductive allocation
- 5.3. Life histories
- 6. Artificial selection
- 6.1. Selection acting on quantitative variation
- 6.2. Generations 1-10 : the short-term response
- 6.3. Generations 10-1000 : the limits to selection
- g 6.4. Generations 100 up : new kinds of creatures.