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Non-Neutral Evolution

Theories and Molecular Data

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  • © 1994

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Editors:
  1. Brian Golding

    1. Department of Biology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Alternatives to the Neutral Theory

    • John H. Gillespie
    Pages 1-17

  3. Patterns of Polymorphism and Between Species Divergence in the Enzymes of Central Metabolism

    • Walter F. Eanes
    Pages 18-28

  4. Molecular Population Genetics in Drosophila Pseudoobscura: Three Future Directions

    • Stephen W. Schaeffer
    Pages 29-45

  5. Selection, Recombination, and DNA Polymorphism in Drosophila

    • Charles F. Aquadro, David J. Begun, Eric C. Kindahl
    Pages 46-56

  6. Effects of Genetic Recombination and Population Subdivision on Nucleotide Sequence Variation in Drosophila ananassae

    • Wolfgang Stephan
    Pages 57-66

  7. Polymorphism and Divergence in Regions of Low Recombination in Drosophila

    • Montserrat Aguadé, Charles H. Langley
    Pages 67-76

  8. Inferring Selection and Mutation from DNA Sequences: The McDonald-Kreitman Test Revisited

    • Stanley A. Sawyer
    Pages 77-87

  9. Detecting Natural Selection by Comparing Geographic Variation in Protein and DNA Polymorphisms

    • John H. McDonald
    Pages 88-100

  10. A Neutrality Test for Continuous Characters Based on Levels of Intraspecific Variation and Interspecific Divergence

    • Andrew G. Clark
    Pages 101-111

  11. Estimation of Population Parameters and Detection of Natural Selection from DNA Sequences

    • Wen-Hsiung Li, Yun-Xin Fu
    Pages 112-125

  12. Using Maximum Likelihood to Infer Selection from Phylogenies

    • Brian Golding
    Pages 126-139

  13. Gene Trees with Background Selection

    • Richard R. Hudson, Norman L. Kaplan
    Pages 140-153

  14. Phylogenetic Analysis on the Edge: The Application of Cladistic Techniques at the Population Level

    • Robert DeSalle, Alfried P. Vogler
    Pages 154-174

  15. The Divergence of Halophilic Superoxide Dismutase Gene Sequences: Molecular Adaptation to High Salt Environments

    • Patrick P. Dennis
    Pages 175-187

  16. Mitochondrial Haplotype Frequencies in Oysters: Neutral Alternatives to Selection Models

    • Andrew T. Beckenbach
    Pages 188-198

  17. Gene Duplication, Gene Conversion and Codon Bias

    • Donal A. Hickey, Shaojiu Wang, Charalambos Magoulas
    Pages 199-207

  18. Genealogical Portraits of Speciation in the Drosophila melanogaster Species Complex

    • Jody Hey, Richard M. Kliman
    Pages 208-216

  19. Genetic Divergence, Reproductive Isolation and Speciation

    • Rama S. Singh, Ling-Wen Zeng
    Pages 217-232

  20. Polymorphism at Mhc Loci and Isolation by the Immune System in Vertebrates

    • Naoyuki Takahata
    Pages 233-246
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About this book

All organisms--from the AIDS virus, to bacteria, to fish, to humans--must evolve to survive. Despite the central place of evolution within biology, there are many things that are still poorly understood. For Charles Darwin, the driving force behind all evolution was natural selection. More recently, evolutionary biologists have considered that many mutations are essentially neutral with respect to natural selection. Many questions remain. Are molecular differences between species adaptive? Are differences within species adaptive? Modern biotechnology has enabled us to identify precisely the actual DNA structure from many individuals within a population, and thus to see how these DNA sequences have changed over time and to answer some of these questions. At the same time, this knowledge poses new challenges to our ability to understand the observed patterns. This exciting volume outlines the biological problems, provides new perspectives on theoretical treatments of the consequences of natural selection, examines the consequences of molecular data, and relates molecular events to speciation. Every evolutionary biologist will find it of interest.

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There is also a healthy mix of novel and established which broadens its appeal. - Heredity

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Biology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada

    Brian Golding

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Non-Neutral Evolution

  • Book Subtitle: Theories and Molecular Data

  • Editors: Brian Golding

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-2383-3

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1994

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-0-412-05391-7Published: 31 December 1994

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4615-2383-3Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 249

  • Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Applied Ecology, Ecology, Evolutionary Biology, Human Genetics, Zoology

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