Genetics and the origin of species : from Darwin to molecular biology 60 years After Dobzhansky / Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Corporate Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Genetics.

Genomics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (118 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington D.C. : National Academies Press, 1997.

Language Note:

English

Contents:

""PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA""; ""Contents""; ""Genetics and the origin of species: An introduction""; ""Darwin to Dobzhansky""; ""A Man for All Seasons""; ""Genetic Variation and Its Origins""; ""Adaptation and Natural Selection""; ""Population Differentiation and Speciation""; ""Patterns of Evolution""; ""Origin of Genes""; ""Intron Phase Predictions""; ""Introns Correlate with Protein Structure""; ""DISCUSSION""; ""Issues of Selection and Adaptation""; ""CONCLUSION""

""Transposable elements as sources of variation in animals and plants""""Distribution and Classification""; ""Types of TE-Induced Genetic Variation""; ""Evolutionary Considerations""; ""TEs as Genomic Parasites""; ""Coadaptations to Mitigate Reduced Host Fitness""; ""TE-Induced Characters Having Benefit to the Host""; ""Discussion""; ""Conclusions""; ""Long term trends in the evolution of H(3) HA1 human influenza type A""; ""DATA, DEFINITIONS AND METHODS""; ""RESULTS""; ""DISCUSSION""; ""Genes, peoples, and languages""; ""Genetic Dating of Population Separations""

""Geographic Versus Historic Analysis""""Genetic and Linguistic Evolution""; ""DNA variation at the Sod locus of Drosophila melanogaster: An unfolding story of natural selection""; ""The Initial Survey""; ""Sequence Variation at Linked Regions""; ""Discussion and Conclusions""; ""Neutral behavior of shared polymorphism""; ""Expected Persistence of Neutral Shared Polymorphism""; ""Loss of Shared Polymorphic Sites Over Time""; ""Number of Shared Polymorphic Sites Expected at Steady State""; ""The Neutral Coalescent and Shared Polymorphism""; ""Discussion""

""Divergent and conserved features in the spatial expression of the Drosophila pseudoobscura esterase-5B gene and the�""""MATERIALS AND METHODS""; ""RESULTS""; ""DISCUSSION""; ""A demographic approach to selection""; ""MATERIALS AND METHODS""; ""ANALYSIS AND RESULTS""; ""DISCUSSION""; ""Phylogenetics and the origin of species""; ""Assortative fertilization in Drosophila""; ""Interspecific Assortative Fertilisation in Drosophila""; ""Intraspecific Assortative Fertilization in Drosophila""; ""Mechanisms""; ""Origins and Implications for Population Differentiation and Reproductive Isolation""

""Incipient species formation in salmanders of the Ensatina complex""""MATERIALS AND METHODS""; ""RESULTS""; ""DISCUSSION""; ""Genetics and the origin of bird species""; ""Speciation in Birds""; ""A Model of Allopatric Speciation""; ""Evidence from Field Studies of Darwin�s Finches""; ""Reproductive Isolation""; ""Inheritance of Traits that Isolate the Species""; ""Evolution of Prezygotic Isolation: Reinforcement""; ""Evolution of Premating Isolating Factors in Allopatry""; ""Allopatric Divergence""; ""Sufficient Allopatric Divergence for the Establishment of Sympatry""

""When does a Species become Two?""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-282-08131-4

9786612081316

0-309-59309-3

OCLC:

815774337