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Genetic Structure and Local Adaptation in Natural Insect Populations

Effects of Ecology, Life History, and Behavior

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  • © 1998

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Editors:
  1. Susan Mopper

    1. Department of Biology, University of Southwestern Louisiana, Lafayette, USA

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  2. Sharon Y. Strauss

    1. Section of Evolution and Ecology, University of California, Davis, USA

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
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  2. Local Adaptation: Empirical Evidence from Case Studies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Population Structure and the Conundrum of Local Adaptation

      • Don Alstad
      Pages 3-21

    3. Deme Formation in a Dispersive Gall-Forming Midge

      • Peter Stiling, Anthony M. Rossi
      Pages 22-36

    4. Prevention of Deme Formation by the Pinyon Needle Scale: Problems of Specializing in a Dynamic System

      • Neil S. Cobb, Thomas G. Whitham
      Pages 37-63

    5. Local Adaptation in Specialist Herbivores: Theory and Evidence

      • William J. Boecklen, Susan Mopper
      Pages 64-88

  3. Foundations of Local Adaptation: The Genetic Basis of Host-Plant Use and the Nature of Selection

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 89-89
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    2. Population-Level Adaptation to Host-Plant Chemicals: The Role of Cytochrome P450 Monooxygenases

      • May R. Berenbaum, Arthur R. Zangerl
      Pages 91-112

    3. Assessment of Genetic Variation in the Presence of Maternal or Paternal Effects in Herbivorous Insects

      • MaryCarol Rossiter
      Pages 113-138

    4. Local Adaptation and Stochastic Events in an Oak Leaf-Miner Population

      • Susan Mopper
      Pages 139-155

    5. The Strength of Selection: Intraspecific Variation in Host-Plant Quality and the Fitness of Herbivores

      • Sharon Y. Strauss, Richard Karban
      Pages 156-177

  4. Life History, Behavior, and Genetic Structure

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 179-179
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    2. Intrademic Genetic Structure and Natural Selection in Insects

      • David E. McCauley, Peter W. Goff
      Pages 181-204

    3. Social Behavior and Its Effects on Colony- and Microgeographic Genetic Structure in Phytophagous Insect Populations

      • James T. Costa
      Pages 205-238

    4. Dispersal and Adaptive Deme Formation in Sedentary Coccoid Insects

      • Lawrence M. Hanks, Robert F. Denno
      Pages 239-262

    5. Life-History Strategies and the Genetic Structure of Phytophagous Insect Populations

      • Merrill A. Peterson, Robert F. Denno
      Pages 263-322

  5. Local Adaptation, Host Race Formation, and Speciation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 323-323
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    2. Differential Adaptation in Spacially Heterogeneous Environments and Host-Parasite Coevolution

      • Sylvain Gandon, Dieter Ebert, Isabelle Olivieri, Yannis Michalakis
      Pages 325-342

    3. Scale-Dependent Evolution of Specialization in a Checkerspot Butterfly: From Individuals to Metapopulations and Ecotypes

      • Chris D. Thomas, Michael C. Singer
      Pages 343-374

    4. Factors Affecting Gene Flow between the Host Races of Eurosta solidaginis

      • Joanne K. Itami, Timothy P. Craig, John D. Horner
      Pages 375-407
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About this book

Providing an essential foundation for evolutionary theory, this comprehensive volume examines patterns of genetic variation within natural insect populations, and explores the underlying mechanisms that lead to the genetic divergence of coexisting organisms. In particular, the text investigates current research on finescale genetic structure in natural insect populations.
Internationally renowned scientists offer a wealth of current information not previously published. Part I present case studies of adaptive genetic structure in natural insect populations, including a critical discussion of the strenghts and weaknesses of the experimental methods employed. Part II addresses the ecological mechanisms that produce adaptive genetic structure in natural insect populations. Part III describes how behavioral and life-history patterns influence genetic structure. Finally, Part IV combines theoretical and empirical approaches linking genetic structure at the population level with larger-scale patterns of variation, such as host race formation and speciation.
This broad-ranging, interdisciplinary source of information supplies a thorough examination of the mechanisms that promote and impede genetic structure in natural insect populations. It is a book that will be of interest to undergraduate and graduate students, and to researchers in the fields of ecology, evolution, insect and plant systems, entomology, and population genetics.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Biology, University of Southwestern Louisiana, Lafayette, USA

    Susan Mopper

  • Section of Evolution and Ecology, University of California, Davis, USA

    Sharon Y. Strauss

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Genetic Structure and Local Adaptation in Natural Insect Populations

  • Book Subtitle: Effects of Ecology, Life History, and Behavior

  • Editors: Susan Mopper, Sharon Y. Strauss

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-0902-5

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1998

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4757-0904-9Published: 06 March 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4757-0902-5Published: 17 April 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXI, 449

  • Topics: Animal Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography, Human Genetics, Evolutionary Biology

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