Non-Neutral Evolution: Theories and Molecular Data

ISBN-13: 9780412053917 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 249 str.

Brian Golding

Opis

All organisms - from the AIDS virus, to bacteria, fish, and humans - must evolve to survive. Despite the central place of evolution within biology, there are many things that are still poorly understood. For Charles Darwin, the driving force behind all evolution was natural selection. More recently, evolutionary biologists have considered that many mutations are essentially neutral with respect to natural selection. Many questions remain. Are molecular differences between species adaptive? Are differences within species adaptive?

Recenzje

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Spis treści

Alternatives to the neutral theory-- John Gillespie; Patterns of polymorphism and between species divergence in the enzymes of central metabolism-- Walter F. Eanes; Molecular population genetics in Drosophila pseudoobscura: three future directions-- Steve W. Schaeffer; Selection, recombination, and DNA polymorphism, and DNA polymorphism in Drosophila-- Charles F. Aquadro, David J. Begun and Eric C. Kindahl; Effects of genetic recombination and population subdivision on nucleotide sequence variation in Drosophila ananassae-- Wolfgang Stephan; Polymorphism and divergence in regions of low recombination in Drosophila-- Montserrat Aguade and Chuck Langley; Inferring selection and mutation from DNA sequences: the McDonald-Kreitman test revisited-- Stanley A. Sawyer; Detecting natural selection by comparing geographic variation in protein and DNA polymorphism-- John H. McDonald; A neutrality test for continuous characters based on levels of intraspecific divergence-- Andrew G. Clark; Estimation of population parameters and detection of natural selection from DNA sequences-- Wen-Hsiung Li and Yun-Xin Fu; Using maximum likelihood to infer selection from phylogenies-- Brian Golding; Gene trees with background selection-- Richard R. Hudson and Norman L. Kaplan; Phylogenetic analysis on the edge: the application of cladistic techniques at the population level-- Robert DeSalle and Alfried Vogler; The divergence of halophilic superoxide dismutase gene sequences: molecular adaptation to high salt environments-- Patrick P. Dennis; Mitochondrial haplotype frequencies in oysters: neutral alternatives to selection models-- Andrew T. Beckenbach; Gene duplication, gene conversion and codon bias-- Donal A. Hickey, Shaojiu Wang and Charalambos Magoulas; Genealogical portraits of speciation in the Drosophila melanogaster species complex-- Jody Hey and Richard M. Kliman; Genetic divergence, reproductive isolation and speciation-- RamaS. Singh and Ling-Wen Zeng; Polymorphism at Mhc loci and isolation by the immune system in vertebrates-- Naoyuki Takahata.