Population Genetics

ISBN-13: 9781118436943 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 496 str.

Matthew B. Hamilton

Opis

Now updated for its second edition, Population Genetics is the classic, accessible introduction to the concepts of population genetics. Combining traditional conceptual approaches with classical hypotheses and debates, the book equips students to understand a wide array of empirical studies that are based on the first principles of population genetics. Featuring a highly accessible introduction to coalescent theory, as well as covering the major conceptual advances in population genetics of the last two decades, the second edition now also includes end of chapter problem sets and revised coverage of recombination in the coalescent model, metapopulation extinction and recolonization, and the fixation index.

Now updated for its second edition,  Population Genetics  is the classic, accessible introduction to the concepts of population genetics.

Spis treści

Preface and acknowledgementsChapter 1 Thinking like a Population GeneticistChapter 2 Genotype FrequenciesChapter 3 Genetic Drift and Effective Population SizeChapter 4 Population Structure and Gene FlowChapter 5 MutationChapter 6 Fundamentals of Natural SelectionChapter 7 Further Models of Natural SelectionChapter 8 Molecular EvolutionChapter 9 Quantitative trait variation and evolutionChapter 10 The Mendelian basis of quantitative trait variationAppendixLiterature citedIndex

O autorze

MATTHEW B. HAMILTON, PHD, is Associate Professor of Biology at Georgetown University, where he teaches Population Genetics, Molecular Evolution, Evolutionary Processes, and similar undergraduate and graduate level courses. He is founding Director of Georgetown's Environmental Biology undergraduate major, past Director of the Georgetown Environment Initiative, and currently conducts research on the processes that influence the distribution of genetic variation within species.