Progress and Prospects in Evolutionary Biology
The Drosophila Model
1st Edition
Published on 4. September 1997
577 pages
978-0-19-536032-5 (ISBN)
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This book focuses on drosophila as an especially useful model organism for exploring questions of evolutionary biology in the full range of evolutionary studies: population genetics, ecology, ecological genetics, speciation, phylogenetics, genome evolution, molecular evolution, and development. The author presents an integrated view of evolutionary biology as elucidated in this single organism. Special effort is made to point out holes in our knowledge and areas particularly ripe for new investigation.
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- 1. An Overview
- The Problem
- History
- The Origin of the Flies
- Some Basic Biology
- What's in a Name?
- Sources of Information
- 2. Population Genetics-Genes
- The Epistemological Paradox
- Morphological Mutants
- Fitness Variation
- Selection Experiments
- Allozymes
- DNA Variation
- Mutation
- Epilog
- 3. Population Genetics-Inversions
- General Features
- Geographic Distributions
- Temporal Changes
- Other Inversions
- Allozymes and Inversions
- DNA Studies
- Theory of the Origin of Inversions
- Further Information
- 4. Population Genetics-Laboratory Studies
- Genes
- Inversions
- Fitness Components
- The Rare Male Effect
- Sex Ratio and Segregation Distortion
- Heterogeneous Environments and Habitat Choice
- Migration
- Genetic Drift
- Epilog
- 5. Ecology
- Breeding Sites
- Yeasts and Other Microbes
- Population Structure
- Interspecific Competition
- Life Histories, Phenotypic Plasticity, Acclimation, and Aging
- Parasites and Symbionts
- Epilog
- 6. Ecological Genetics
- Habitat Choice
- Ephemeral and Newly Founded Populations
- Cactus-Breeding Drosophila
- Flower-Breeders in South America
- Mycophagous Drosophila
- Male Mating Success
- Population Growth and Size
- 7. Speciation
- The Taxonomy of Species and Speciation
- Three Caveats
- The First Effects
- Reinforcement
- Genetic Divergence
- Genetics of Premating Isolation
- Genetics of Postmating Isolation
- Symbionts
- Laboratory Studies
- Population Processes
- Sexual Selection and Isolation
- 8. Phylogenetics
- Background
- Basics of Phylogenetics
- The Larger Context
- Genus Drosophila
- Individual Groups
- Gene Trees-Species Trees
- Conclusions
- 9. Genome Evolution
- Drosophila Genome Structure
- Genome Size Evolution
- Karyotype Evolution
- Linkage
- Global View of scDNA Evolution
- Heterochromatin
- The Y Chromosome
- Recombination
- Transposable Elements
- Genome Projects
- 10. Molecular Evolution
- Measures of Variation
- Levels of Nuclear DNA Variation
- Pattern of Polymorphism
- Insertion/Deletions (Indels)
- An Historical Aside
- Recombination and Hitchhiking
- Rates of DNA Evolution
- Codon Usage Bias and Effects on Rates
- Between Versus Within
- Mitochondrial DNA
- Out of Africa: A Reevaluation of D. melanogaster
- DNA Variation and Inversions: Ancestry and Gene Conversions
- Gene Duplications
- Gene Structure
- Adh: The Center of Attention
- Other Genes
- 11. Development
- Gene Regulation
- Morphology and Embryogenesis
- Development and Phylogeny
- Canalization and Genetic Assimilation
- 12. Retrospective and Prospective
- Integration of Information
- Genetic Loads
- Whither the Selectionist/Neutralist Debate?
- Scales of Analysis
- Development
- Speciation
- Conservation
- The Model
- References
- Index
- Subject Index
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- Taxonomic Index
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