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Ecological Genetics

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  • © 1975

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  1. E. B. Ford

    1. University of Oxford, UK

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
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  2. Ecological Genetics

    • E. B. Ford
    Pages 1-11

  3. Numerical Changes in Animal Populations

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    Pages 12-35

  4. Genetic Drift and the Founder Principle

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    Pages 36-47

  5. Polygenic Characters Evolving in Isolation

    • E. B. Ford
    Pages 48-77

  6. Sympatric Evolution

    • E. B. Ford
    Pages 78-108

  7. The Theory of Genetic Polymorphism

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    Pages 109-136

  8. Balanced Polymorphism in Panaxia Dominula

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    Pages 137-156

  9. Polymorphism and the Effects of the Switch-Gene

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    Pages 157-191

  10. Polymorphism and the Super-gene in Snails

    • E. B. Ford
    Pages 192-217

  11. The Heterostyle-Homostyle System

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    Pages 218-233

  12. Chromosome Polymorphism

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    Pages 234-249

  13. Mimicry

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    Pages 250-283

  14. Papilio dardanus and the Evolution of Mimicry

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    Pages 284-313

  15. Transient Polymorphism and Melanism

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    Pages 314-354

  16. Isolation and Adaptation

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    Pages 355-389

  17. Conclusion

    • E. B. Ford
    Pages 390-393

  18. Back Matter

    Pages 394-442
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About this book

This book describes the experimental study of evolution and adaptation, carried out by means of combined field-work and laboratory genetics. That technique has been developed during the last forty years or so by my colleagues and myself, and by a small but increasing number of geneticists throughout the world. In discussing what has been achieved by these means many relevant pieces of work familiar to me have been omitted, while doubtless there are others that have escaped my attention. To those who have thus laboured without recognition here, I offer my apologies. Yet I would not include further examples were I writing again, and this for two reasons. First, my aim is not to produce a com­ pendium in the German fashion, for I have endeavoured to develop principles with enough instances to illustrate them but no more. Secondly, this book is in danger of becoming too long as it is: one which is in general consulted only in libraries, not read familiarly by students.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Oxford, UK

    E. B. Ford

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Ecological Genetics

  • Authors: E. B. Ford

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5825-8

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: E. B. Ford 1975

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-0-412-16130-8Published: 19 July 1979

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-5825-8Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XX, 442

  • Number of Illustrations: 24 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary

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