Genetics, Speciation and the Founder Principle

Inbunden, Engelska, 1989

AvLuther Val Giddings,Kenneth Y. Kaneshiro,Wyatt W. Anderson

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Genetics, Speciation and the Founder Principle describes the genetic mechanisms that govern the development and evolution of animals and plants. In particular, the book focuses on animal and plant species evolving in isolated habitats and species colonizing new territories. This approach--studying 'founder' populations--enables geneticists to more readily identify some of the evolutionary pressures affecting the speciation process. The Founder Principle in population genetics was elucidated in large part by Hampton Carson in classic studies of Hawaiian fruit flies (Drosophila). The editors of this volume have commissioned seventeen chapters by an internationally recognized group of geneticists who discuss the Founder Principle in relation to plant speciation, chromosomal evolution, molecular evolution and development, sexual selection, and genetic changes in natural populations. The volume was organized as a tribute to Professor Carson on the occasion of his retirement from the University of Hawaii.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum1989-08-31
Mått165 x 243 x 26 mm
Vikt973 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor400
FörlagOUP OXFORD
ISBN9780195043150

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W. Anderson, K. Kaneshiro & L.V. Giddings: H.L. Carson: Interviews toward an intellectual history; W.B. Provine: Founder effects and genetic revolutions in microevolution and speciation: an historical perspective; G.D. Carr, R.H. Robichaux, M.S. Witter & D.W. Kyhos: Adaptive radiation of the Hawaiian silversword alliance: a comparison with Hawaiian picture-winged Drosophila; F.R. Ganders: Adaptive radiation in Hawaiian bidens; G.L. Stebbins: Plant speciation and the founder principle; J.S. Yoon: Chromosomal evolution and speciation in Hawaiian Drosophila T.W. Lyttle: Is there a role for meiotic drive in karyotype evolution?; J.A. Hunt, K.A. Houtchens, L.M. Brezinsky, F. Shadravan & J.G. Bishop: Genomic DNA variation within and between closely related species of Hawaiian Drosophila; W.J. Dickinson: Gene regulation and evolution; E. Nevo: The nature and role of peripheral isolates in the origin of species; J.R. Powell: The effects of founder-flush cycles on ethological isolation in laboratory populations of Drosophila; W.B. Heed: Origin of Drosophila of the Sonoran Desert: in search of a founder event; K.Y. Kaneshiro: The dynamics of sexual selection and founder effects in species formation; J.V. Neel: Human evolution and the 'founder-flush' principle; A. T. Ohta: The genetic basis of adaptive evolution in the Grimshawi species complex of Hawaiian Drosophila; A. R. Templeton: Founder effects and the evolution of reproductive isolation; H.L. Carson: Genetic imbalance, realigned selection and the origin of species.

"These essays explore the nature and importance of the "founder effect"--a genetic phenomenon considered to be increasingly important to the formation of species in plants and animals . . . . Contributors include such well-known longtime researchers as James V. Neel and Ledyard Stebbins. For an audience sophisticated in genetics, including upper-division undergraduates and graduate students." --Choice"This book should be consulted by all those interested in speciation. It is a definitive statement of ideas from the "Hawaiian school" of evolution, including a new theory from Kaneshiro about the effect of founder events on female preferences. Many of the papers are of wider interest than the title of the volume might suggest, and address such diverse subjects as adaptive radiation in plants, karyotypic evolution, sexual selection, and the genetics of theYanomama Indians." --The Quarterly Review of Biology