Molecular approaches to ecology and evolution /
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| Imprint: | Boston : Birkhàˆuser Verlag, c1998. |
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| Description: | xv, 364 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3468690 |
Table of Contents:
- Pt. 1. Population biology, kinship and fingerprinting. The use of molecular markers to study kinship in birds: techniques and questions / Michael S. Webster and David F. Westneat. A role for molecular biology in testing ideas about cryptic female choice / Michael T. Siva-Jothy and Heike Hadrys. Molecular measures of insect fitness / Michelle Pellissier Scott and Scott M. Williams. The use of microsatellites for genetic analysis of natural populations - a critical review / Christian Schlotterer and Josephine Pemberton. Caution before claim: an overview of microsatellite analysis in ecology and evolutionary biology / Howard C. Rosenbaum and Amos S. Deinard. Arbitrary oligonucleotides: primers for amplification and direct identification of nucleic acids, genes and organisms / G. Caetano-Anolles
- Pt. 2. Species. The role of molecular genetics in speciation studies / Alan R. Templeton. Testing speciation models with DNA sequence data / John Wakeley and Jody Hey. PCR assays of variable nucleotide sites for identification of conservation units: an example from Caiman / George Amato, John Gatesy and Peter Brazaitis. Extinction and the evolutionary process in endangered species: What to conserve? / Alfried P. Vogler. Quantitative trait loci: a new approach to old evolutionary problems / Eric Routman and James M. Cheverud. Seeking the genetic basis of phenotypic differences among bacterial species / Howard Ochman and Eduardo A. Groisman
- Pt. 3. Higher taxa and systematics. Alignment characters, dynamic programming and heuristic solutions / Ward Wheeler. Pitfalls in phylogenetic analysis of large molecular data sets / Paul Z. Goldstein and Chelsea D. Specht. The comparison of morphological and molecular data in phylogenetic systematics / Allan Larson. Beyond area relationships: Extinction and recolonization in molecular marine biogeography / Clifford W. Cunningham and Timothy M. Collins. The history of development through the evolution of molecules: gene trees, hearts, eyes and dorsoventral inversion / David K. Jacobs, Shannon E. Lee and M. N. Dawson [et al.].
