Genetics and the Extinction of Species (eBook)

DNA and the Conservation of Biodiversity

Andrew Dobson, Laura Landweber (Herausgeber)

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2021
207 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-22403-9 (ISBN)

Infos

Darwin's Origin of Species and Dobzhansky's Genetics and the Origin of Species have been the cornerstones of modern evolutionary and population genetic theory for the past hundred years, but in the twenty-first century, biologists will face graver problems of extinction. In this collection, a team of leading biologists demonstrates why the burgeoning field of conservation biology must continue to rely on the insights of population genetics if we are to preserve the diversity of living species. Technological and theoretical developments throughout the 1990s have allowed for important new insights into how populations have evolved in response to past selection pressures, while providing a broad new understanding of the genetic structure of natural populations. The authors explore these advances and argue for the applicability of new genetic methods in conservation biology. The volume covers such topics as the reasons for extinctions, the best ways to measure biodiversity, and the benefits and drawbacks of policies like captive breeding. Genetics and the Extinction of Species is a rich source of information for biologists and policymakers who want to learn more about the host of tools, theories, and approaches available for conserving biodiversity. In addition to the editors, the contributors to the volume are William Amos, Rebecca Cann, Kathryn Rodriguez-Clark, Leslie Douglas, Leonard Freed, Paul Harvey, Kent Holsinger, Russell Lande, and Helen Steers.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.1.2021
• Zusatzinfo: 9 tables 24 line illus. 2 halftones 5 maps
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Evolution
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Genetik / Molekularbiologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Schlagworte: Adaptation • adaptive Radiation • akiapolaau • Allele • allelic diversity • Ancient DNA • assimilation • Avian malaria • balancing selection • biodiversity • biological pest control • biologist • captive breeding • Carrying Capacity • cichlid fish • cockroaches • Coefficient of relationship • Competition • conservation biology • conservation genetics • Contamination • crested honeycreeper • Culex quinquefasciatus • damaged DNA • declining-population paradigm • Dinosaur • Disease • Drosophila • Ecology • ecomorph • economic factors • ecosystem • Effective population size • Egyptian mummy • Endangered Species • Environmental Policy • epistasis • European badger • Evolution • evolutionary biology • Exotic Species • extinction • Extinction threshold • extreme environments • Fitness (biology) • fitness loss • fluctating selection • frequency-dependent selection • fur seal • Gene • Gene Flow • gene genealogy • Gene Pool • genetic distance • Genetic divergence • genetic diversity • genetic drift • geneticist • Genetic marker • genetic structure • genetic variability • genetic variance • genetic variation • Genotype • global warming • habitat destruction • haplotype • haplotypes • Hawaiian honeycreeper • Hawaiian Islands • Hawaii (island) • Heritability • Heterozygosity • high-elevation habitats • honeycreeper • Hybrid (biology) • Inbreeding • Inbreeding depression • introduced species • Invertebrate • Kahoolawe • Kauai • kinship coefficient • kiwis • leaf compressions • likelihood ratio test • Local extinction • Loss of heterozygosity • Malaria • Mammal • Martian meteorite • mate choice • mating • Maximum Likelihood • Mendelian Inheritance • metapopulation • Metapopulation Models • microsatellite • Mitochondrial DNA • molecular scatology • Molokai • Mutation • mutation rate • Natural selection • Neandertal • neutral variation • Nucleic acid sequence • Oahu • Outgroup (cladistics) • Overexploitation • Papillomavirus • Passerine • pathogen • Pesticide • Phenotype • phylogenetic analysis • Phylogenetics • Plasmodium • Polymerase chain reaction • Polymorphism (biology) • Population bottleneck • population crash • Population decline • population dynamics • Population Genetics • Population Size • Protein • quantitative characters • quantitative trait locus • racemization • rare species • recombination • Reproductive success • Reproductive value (population genetics) • Restriction enzymes • salmon runs • Selection coefficient • selective breeding • selective sweep • Sexual Selection • Small population size • Speciation • species • Taxon • Vertebrate • White-rumped shama
• ISBN-10: 0-691-22403-X / 069122403X
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-22403-9 / 9780691224039