Evolutionary Quantitative Genetics
The impetus for this book arose out of my previous book, The Evolution of Life Histories (Roff, 1992). In that book I presented a single chapter on quanti tative genetic theory. However, as the book was concerned with the evolution of life histories and traits connected to this, the presence of qua...
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New York, NY
Springer US
1997, 1997
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Table of Contents:
- 10.7 Directional Selection on a Single Trait: Is It Predictable?
- 10.8 Can We Go from One to Several Traits?
- 10.9 Phenotypic Plasticity: An Experimental Nuisance?
- 10.10 Parental Effects: Another Nuisance?
- 10.11 Should We Worry About Population Size?
- 10.12 Inbreeding Effects: Partial Dominance or Overdominance?
- 10.13 What Maintains Genetic Variation in Populations?
- 10.14 Is Quantitative Genetic Analysis a Viable Approach to the Understanding of Evolution?
- Glossary of Terms
- Glossary of Symbols
- References
- Taxonomic Index
- 4.1 The Basic Equation: R = h2S
- 4.2 Evolvability
- 4.3 Predicted Response in a Very Large Population
- 4.4 Predicted Response in a Finite Population
- 4.5 Asymmetry of Response
- 4.6 Estimating Heritability from a Directional Selection Experiment
- 4.7 Empirical Findings on the Response to Artificial Selection
- 4.8 Predicting Responses in Nature
- 4.9 Summary
- 5—Directional Selection and the Correlated Response
- 5.1 Derivation of the Correlated Response to Selection
- 5.2 Correlated Response with Selection on One Trait
- 5.3 Correlated Response to Selection on Several Traits
- 5.4 Summary
- 6—Phenotypic Plasticity and Reaction Norms
- 6.1 Two Perspective: Character State Versus Reaction Norm
- 6.2 Evolution of Plastic Traits
- 6.3 The Genetic Basis of Plasticity
- 6.4 Summary
- 7—Sex-Related Effects on Quantitative Variation
- 7.1 Influence of Loci Located on the Sex Chromosomes
- 7.2 Sexual Dimorphism
- 7.3 Maternal Effects: A Theoretical Framework
- 7.4 Measuring Maternal Effects
- 7.5 Summary
- 8—Bottlenecks, Finite Populations, and Inbreeding
- 8.1 Effective Population Size
- 8.2 The Influence of Population Bottlenecks on Quantitative Genetic Variation
- 8.3 The Influence of Finite Population Size on Quantitative Variation
- 8.4 Inbreeding
- 8.5 Summary
- 9—The Maintenance of Genetic Variation
- 9.1 Stabilizing Selection
- 9.2 Disruptive Selection
- 9.3 Mutation-Selection Balance
- 9.4 Heterozygous Advantage
- 9.5 Antagonistic Pleiotropy
- 9.6 Frequency-Dependent Selection
- 9.7 Environmental Heterogeneity
- 9.8 Summary
- 10—A Summing Up
- 10.1 Are the Basic Assumptions of Quantitative Genetics Reasonable?
- 10.2 Is Heritability a Useful Parameter?
- 10.3 How Should Heritability Be Estimated?
- 10.4 Are Laboratory Estimates of Heritability Useful?
- 10.5 How Does Heritability Vary with Trait Type?
- 10.6 The Genetic Correlation: From the Sublime to the Ridiculous?
- 1— Introduction
- 1.1 Introducing the Problem
- 1.2 Overview
- 1.3 Two General Approaches to Quantitative Genetic Modeling
- 1.4 Wright’s Method of Estimating the Number of Loci
- 1.5 QTL Mapping
- 1.6 Summary
- 2—Heritability
- 2.1 The Meaning of Heritability
- 2.2 Estimation of Heritability for Continuous Traits
- 2.3 Estimation of Heritability for Threshold Traits
- 2.4 Heritability Values Among Different Types of Trait
- 2.5 Dominance Variance in the Different Types of Trait
- 2.6 Heritability Values in Nature
- 2.7 Summary
- 3—The Genetic Correlation
- 3.1 Theory
- 3.2 Estimation of the Genetic Correlation Between Traits Within an Individual
- 3.3 Estimation of the Genetic Correlation Between Different Environments
- 3.4 The Distribution of Genetic Correlations
- 3.5 Is the Phenotypic Correlation a Reasonable Estimate of the Genetic Correlation?
- 3.6 Comparison of Genetic Variance-Covariance Matrices
- 3.7 Summary
- 4—Directional Selection