Ecological Genetics

1. Front Matter

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2. Theory

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. On the Evolution of Ecological Parameters

      • S. A. Levin

      Pages 3-26

   3. Coevolution in Ecological Systems III. Coadaptation and Equilibrium Population Size

      • J. Roughgarden

      Pages 27-48

3. Physiology, Biochemistry, and Adaptation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 49-49

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   2. Physiology and Biochemistry of Enzyme Variation: The Interface of Ecology and Population Genetics

      • R. K. Koehn

      Pages 51-72

   3. Genes, Enzymes and Hypoxia

      • W. J. Schull, R. E. Ferrell, F. Rothhammer

      Pages 73-90

4. Drosophila

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 91-91

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   2. Speciation and Sexual Selection in Hawaiian Drosophila

      • H. L. Carson

      Pages 93-107

   3. Ecology and Genetics of Sonoran Desert Drosophila

      • W. B. Heed

      Pages 109-126

   4. Microspatial Genetic Differentiation in Natural Populations of Drosophila

      • R. C. Richmond

      Pages 127-142

5. Other Animals

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 143-143

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   2. Ecological Parameters and Speciation in Field Crickets

      • R. G. Harrison

      Pages 145-158

   3. Some Contributions of Snails to the Development of Ecological Genetics

      • B. Clarke

      Pages 159-170

6. Plants

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 171-171

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   2. Genetic Demography of Plant Populations

      • M. T. Clegg, A. L. Kahler, R. W. Allard

      Pages 173-188

   3. Some Genetic Consequences of Being a Plant

      • D. A. Levin

      Pages 189-212

7. Coda

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 213-213

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   2. Population Differentiation: Something New or More of the Same?

      • R. R. Sokal

      Pages 215-239

8. Back Matter

   Pages 241-248

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Traditionally, studies in ecological genetics have involved both field observations and laboratory genetic analyses. Comparisons and cor­ relations between these two kinds of data have provided valuable in­ formation on the genetic strategies behind the evolutionary adapta­ tions of species and their component local populations. Indeed, much of our current understanding of the dynamics of evolutionary pro­ cesses has come fro~ syntheses of ecological and genetic information. Since the recent discovery of abundant markers in the form of protein polymorphisms, scientific interest in the connections between genetics and ecology has quickened considerably. This volume contains the proceedings of the Society for the Study of Evolution's symposium, Genetics and Ecology: The Interface, held at Ithaca College, Ithaca, New York, June 12-15, 1977. This particular topic was selected because of a general feeling that a significant integration of genetics and ecology has developed in the last decade or so. Host ecologists no longer believe that each species has a characteristic and constant birth, death, and develonment rate, habitat preference, and so on, but that these para~eters vary a~ong populations and are at least partially under genetic control and sub­ ject to natural selection. Similarly, few population geneticists still view any species as infinitely large, panmictic, constant in numbers, and distributed evenly throughout its range.

• Populationsgenetik
• dynamics
• ecology
• evolution
• genetics
• Ökologie

• Division of Biological Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA

  Peter F. Brussard

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