Theoretical Aspects of Population Genetics (eBook)

Motoo Kimura, Tomoko Ohta (Autoren)

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2020
232 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-21009-4 (ISBN)

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To show the importance of stochastic processes in the change of gene frequencies, the authors discuss topics ranging from molecular evolution to two-locus problems in terms of diffusion models. Throughout their discussion, they come to grips with one of the most challenging problems in population genetics--the ways in which genetic variability is maintained in Mendelian populations.R.A. Fisher, J.B.S. Haldane, and Sewall Wright, in pioneering works, confirmed the usefulness of mathematical theory in population genetics. The synthesis their work achieved is recognized today as mathematical genetics, that branch of genetics whose aim is to investigate the laws governing the genetic structure of natural populations and, consequently, to clarify the mechanisms of evolution.For the benefit of population geneticists without advanced mathematical training, Professors Kimura and Ohta use verbal description rather than mathematical symbolism wherever practicable. A mathematical appendix is included.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 31.3.2020
• Reihe/Serie: Monographs in Population Biology
• Reihe/Serie: Monographs in Population Biology
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Informatik ► Weitere Themen ► Bioinformatik
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Genetik / Molekularbiologie
• Schlagworte: ABO blood group system • Adaptation • adaptive surface • Allele • alleles • Amino acid • Amino Acid Substitution • Animal breeding • apparent • asexual reproduction • balancing selection • Bessel function • Biology • breeding structure • Calculation • Centimorgan • Characteristic function (probability theory) • Chromosomal crossover • chromosomal variation • chromosome • Chromosome 1 (human) • Cistron • Coefficient of relationship • correlation coefficient • cytochrome c • Darwin • Darwinism • Drosophila • Effective population size • epistasis • Escherichia coli • estimation • Evolution • Evolutionary progress • evolutionary rates • Fisher's fundamental theorem of natural selection • Fitness (biology) • Fitness model (network theory) • fossils, living • founder effect • frequency-dependent selection • F-statistics • Gamete • G-C content • Gene • gene duplication • Gene Frequency • Gene Pool • genetic drift • Genetic Linkage • Genetic Recombination • genetic structure • genetic variability • genetic variance • genetic variation • Genotype • Genotype frequency • grandparent • Hardy–Weinberg principle • hemoglobin • Heterozygote advantage • Homology (biology) • human genome • Inbreeding • insulins • Isozyme • James F. Crow • J. B. S. Haldane • Karl Pearson • K distribution • lethal equivalent • Linkage Disequilibrium • Locus (genetics) • Loss of heterozygosity • Malthusian parameter • Marker chromosome • mating • Meiotic drive • Mendelian Inheritance • Molecular Evolution • Mutant • Mutation • mutation, advantageous • mutation rate • Mutation–selection balance • Natural selection • Neutral mutation • Nuclear DNA • Nucleic acid double helix • Nucleobase • Nucleotide • observational study • Ordovician • organism • Overdominance • Point mutation • Poisson distribution • Polygene • Population • Population Genetics • Population Size • Probability • Probability Distribution • quasi-equilibrium surface • rate of • Rate of evolution • Ronald Fisher • Sampling (Statistics) • selection • Selection coefficient • selective values • sexual reproduction • Single-nucleotide polymorphism • Speciation • Statistical Mechanics • Statistical population • steady flux equation • Structural gene • Truncation selection • viability polygenes • X chromosome
• ISBN-10: 0-691-21009-8 / 0691210098
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-21009-4 / 9780691210094