Molecular Approaches to Ecology and Evolution
Four years ago we edited a volume of 36 papers entitled Molecular Approaches to Ecology and Evolution (Schierwater et ai. , 1994), in which we attempted to put to gether a diverse array of papers that demonstrated the impact that the technologi cal revolution ofmolecular biology has had on the fie...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Basel
Birkhäuser
1998, 1998
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1998 |
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Population biology, kinship and fingerprinting
- The use of molecular markers to study kinship in birds: techniques and questions
- A role for molecular biology in testing ideas about cryptic female choice
- Molecular measures of insect fitness
- The use of microsatellites for genetic analysis of natural populations — a critical review
- Caution before claim: an overview of microsatellite analysis in ecology and evolutionary biology
- Arbitrary oligonucleotides: primers for amplification and direct identification of nucleic acids, genes and organisms
- 2. Species
- The role of molecular genetics in speciation studies
- Testing speciation models with DNA sequence data
- PCR assays of variable nudeotide sites for identification of conservation units: an example from Caiman
- Extinction and the evolutionary process in endangered species: What to conserve?
- Quantitative trait loci: a new approach to old evolutionary problems
- Seeking the genetic basis of phenotypic differences among bacterial species
- 3. Higher taxa and systematics
- Alignment characters, dynamic programming and heuristic solutions
- Pitfalls in phylogenetic analysis of large molecular data sets
- The comparison of morphological and molecular data in phylogenetic systematics
- Beyond area relationships: Extinction and recolonization in molecular marine biogeography
- The history of development through the evolution of molecules: gene trees, hearts, eyes and dorsoventral inversion