TitleMeasuring Selection in Natural Populations [electronic resource] / edited by Freddy B. Christiansen, Tom M. Fenchel
ImprintBerlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1977
Connect tohttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-93071-3
Descript XXXII, 566 p. online resource

CONTENT

1. Study of Selection -- Estimation of mating cycle components of selection in plants -- Population genetics of Zoarces viviparus (L.), a review -- A study of sexual selection in natural populations of the milkweed beetle, Tetraopes tetraophthalmus -- How does the genome congeal? -- Attempts to measure selection by altering gene frequencies in natural populations -- Genetic variance for viability and linkage disequilibrium in natural populations of Drosophila melanogaster -- Sexual selection and the evolution of territoriality in birds -- Functional aspects of genetic variation -- On conditional inference for deviation from Hardy-Weinberg distribution -- 2. Study of Polymorphism -- Selection and neutrality -- Protein evolution: Nonrandom patterns in related species -- Polymorphism, selection, and multi-locus heterozygosity in the plaice, Pleuronectes platessa L. -- Hidden heterogeneity among electrophoretic alleles -- Natural selection and the ?-GPDH locus in Drosophilidae -- Nonrandom associations between allozymes in natural populations of Drosophila melanogaster -- Polymorphism for the number of genes coding for salivary amylase in the bank vole, Clethrionomys glareola -- A geometric formulation of the stability condition at a triallelic locus -- A general model to account for enzyme variation in natural populations. IV The quantitative genetics of viability mutants -- 3. Sex and Evolution -- The sex habit in plants and animals -- Evolution of the sex ratio in the wood lemming, Myopus schisticolor -- Population genetics, demography and the sex ratio -- A comparative study on enzyme polymorphisms in sympatric diploid and polyploid populations of Lumbricillus lineatus (O.F.M.), Enchytraeidae, Oligochaeta -- Selection and genetic differentiation in parthogenetic populations -- 4. Ecology and Evolution -- Cactus-breeding Drosophila โ A system for the measurement of natural selection -- Test of the hypothesis that migration balances selection in differentiated subpopulations of Spirorbis borealis -- The selection regime of Philaneus spumarius (L.) (Homoptera) -- Effects of a virus on competition and selection in barley -- Selection and interspecific competition -- Coevolution in ecological systems: Results from โloop analysisโ for purely density-dependent coevolution -- 5. Human Evolution -- Selection and non-Mendelian variability -- Estimation of the characteristics of rare variants -- The genetics of HLA and disease associations


SUBJECT

  1. Medicine
  2. Life sciences
  3. Biomedicine
  4. Biomedicine general
  5. Life Sciences
  6. general