Principles of Population Genetics
4th Edition
Published on 31. December 2006
Book
Hardback
545 pages
978-0-87893-308-2 (ISBN)
Description
This text introduces the principles of genetics and statistics that are relevant to population studies, and examines the forces affecting genetic variation from the molecular to the organismic level. Included are descriptions of molecular methods, as well as explanations of the relevant estimation theory using actual data.
Reviews / Votes
It is a pleasure to read this new edition of a classical textbook on population genetics. It shows very convincingly how population genetics has been revamped in the past twenty years by the introduction of new statistical and computational methods (in particular, coalescent theory), and the advent of genomic data, as well as how these developments changed a formerly rather arcane science and moved it toward the center of modern biology. In summary, the essence of population genetics is nicely condensed in this book. The presentation is wonderfully balanced between theory and observation, as well as classical and recent data sets and analysis tools. * Wolfgang Stephan, The Quarterly Review of Biology *More details
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Previous edition
Daniel L. Hartl
Principles of Population Genetics
Book
01/1997
3rd Edition
Sinauer Associates Inc.,U.S.
€85.60
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Persons
DANIEL L. HARTL is Higgins Professor of Biology at Harvard University, USA. He has been honoured with the Samuel Weiner Outstanding Scholar Award and Medal, the Medal of the Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, and is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In addition to more than 300 scientific articles, Hartl has authored or co-authored 24 books.
ANDREW G. CLARK is Professor of Population Genetics at Cornell University, USA. His research focuses on the genetic basis of adaptive variation in natural populations, with emphasis on quantitative modeling of phenotypes as networks of interacting genes. He was elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1994, and serves on review panels for the NIH, NSF, and the Max Planck Society. He is also on the Advisory Council for the National Human Genome Research Institute.
ANDREW G. CLARK is Professor of Population Genetics at Cornell University, USA. His research focuses on the genetic basis of adaptive variation in natural populations, with emphasis on quantitative modeling of phenotypes as networks of interacting genes. He was elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1994, and serves on review panels for the NIH, NSF, and the Max Planck Society. He is also on the Advisory Council for the National Human Genome Research Institute.
Content
Genetic and Phenotypic Variation.- Organisation of Genetic Variation.- Random Genetic Drift.- Mutation and the Neutral Theory.- Darwinian Selection.- Inbreeding, Population Subdivision, and Migration.- Molecular Population Genetics.- Evolutionary Quantitative Genetics.- Population Genomics.- Human Population Genetics.