Molecular Approaches to Ecology and Evolution

ISBN-13: 9783764357252 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 368 str.

R. de Salle; B. Schierwater; R. Desalle

Opis

There has been an explosion of activity in the application of molecular biological techniques to evolutionary and ecological studies. This volume attempts to summarize advances in the field and place into context the variety of methods available to ecologists and evolutionary biologists using molecular techniques.

Spis treści

1. Population biology, kinship and fingerprinting.- The use of molecular markers to study kinship in birds: techniques and questions.- A role for molecular biology in testing ideas about cryptic female choice.- Molecular measures of insect fitness.- The use of microsatellites for genetic analysis of natural populations — a critical review.- Caution before claim: an overview of microsatellite analysis in ecology and evolutionary biology.- Arbitrary oligonucleotides: primers for amplification and direct identification of nucleic acids, genes and organisms.- 2. Species.- The role of molecular genetics in speciation studies.- Testing speciation models with DNA sequence data.- PCR assays of variable nudeotide sites for identification of conservation units: an example from Caiman.- Extinction and the evolutionary process in endangered species: What to conserve?.- Quantitative trait loci: a new approach to old evolutionary problems.- Seeking the genetic basis of phenotypic differences among bacterial species.- 3. Higher taxa and systematics.- Alignment characters, dynamic programming and heuristic solutions.- Pitfalls in phylogenetic analysis of large molecular data sets.- The comparison of morphological and molecular data in phylogenetic systematics.- Beyond area relationships: Extinction and recolonization in molecular marine biogeography.- The history of development through the evolution of molecules: gene trees, hearts, eyes and dorsoventral inversion.