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Molecular Approaches to Ecology and Evolution

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  • © 1998

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Editors:
  1. Rob DeSalle

    1. American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA

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  2. Bernd Schierwater

    1. Zoologisches Institut, J.W. Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt, Germany

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XV
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  2. Population biology, kinship and fingerprinting

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-5
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    2. The use of molecular markers to study kinship in birds: techniques and questions

      • Michael S. Webster, David F. Westneat
      Pages 7-35

    3. A role for molecular biology in testing ideas about cryptic female choice

      • Michael T. Siva-Jothy, Heike Hadrys
      Pages 37-53

    4. Molecular measures of insect fitness

      • Michelle Pellissier Scott, Scott M. Williams
      Pages 55-69

    5. The use of microsatellites for genetic analysis of natural populations — a critical review

      • Christian Schlötterer, Josephine Pemberton
      Pages 71-86

    6. Caution before claim: an overview of microsatellite analysis in ecology and evolutionary biology

      • Howard C. Rosenbaum, Amos S. Deinard
      Pages 87-106

    7. Arbitrary oligonucleotides: primers for amplification and direct identification of nucleic acids, genes and organisms

      • Gustavo Caetano-AnollĂ©s
      Pages 107-123

  4. Higher taxa and systematics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 237-242
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    2. Alignment characters, dynamic programming and heuristic solutions

      • Ward Wheeler
      Pages 243-251

    3. Pitfalls in phylogenetic analysis of large molecular data sets

      • Paul Z. Goldstein, Chelsea D. Specht
      Pages 253-274

    4. The comparison of morphological and molecular data in phylogenetic systematics

      • Allan Larson
      Pages 275-296

    5. Beyond area relationships: Extinction and recolonization in molecular marine biogeography

      • Clifford W. Cunningham, Timothy M. Collins
      Pages 297-321
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About this book

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 field ofevolutionary biologyand ecology. The present volume borrows from that theme but attempts to focus more sharply on the impact that molecular biology has had on our understanding of dif­ ferent hierarchical levels important in evolutionary and ecological studies. Because DNA sequence variation is at the heart ofeverypaper in the present volume, we feel it necessary to examine how DNA has affected study at various levels of biological organization. The majority of the chapters in the present volume follow themes es­ tablished in the earlier volume; all chapters by authors in the previous volume are either fully updated or entirely new and expand into areas that we felt were impor­ tant for a more complete understanding of the impact of DNA technology on ecol­ ogy and evolution. The collection of papers in this volume cover a diverse array of ecological and evolutionary questions and demonstrates the breadth of coverage molecular tech­ nology has imparted on modern evolutionary biology. There are also a broad range of hierarchical questions approached by the 17 papers in this volume.

Editors and Affiliations

  • American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA

    Rob DeSalle

  • Zoologisches Institut, J.W. Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt, Germany

    Bernd Schierwater

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Molecular Approaches to Ecology and Evolution

  • Editors: Rob DeSalle, Bernd Schierwater

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-8948-3

  • Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Basel AG 1998

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-0348-9840-9Published: 13 November 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-0348-8948-3Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 368

  • Topics: Life Sciences, general, Biomedicine general

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