Population Genetics (eBook)

Matthew B. Hamilton (Autor)

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2021 | 2. Auflage
496 Seiten
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-118-43689-9 (ISBN)

Infos

Now updated for its second edition, Population
Genetics is the classic, accessible introduction to
the concepts of population
genetics. Combining traditional conceptual
approaches with classical hypotheses and debates, the book
equips students to understand a wide array of empirical
studies that are based on the first principles of
population genetics.



Featuring a highly accessible introduction to coalescent theory,
as well as covering the major conceptual advances in
population genetics of the last two decades, the second edition now
also includes end of chapter problem sets and revised coverage of
recombination in the coalescent model, metapopulation extinction
and recolonization, and the fixation index.

Autor

MATTHEW B. HAMILTON, PHD, is Associate Professor of Biology at Georgetown University, where he teaches Population Genetics, Molecular Evolution, Evolutionary Processes, and similar undergraduate and graduate level courses. He is founding Director of Georgetown's Environmental Biology undergraduate major, past Director of the Georgetown Environment Initiative, and currently conducts research on the processes that influence the distribution of genetic variation within species.

Inhalt

Preface and acknowledgements

Chapter 1 Thinking like a Population Geneticist

Chapter 2 Genotype Frequencies

Chapter 3 Genetic Drift and Effective Population Size

Chapter 4 Population Structure and Gene Flow

Chapter 5 Mutation

Chapter 6 Fundamentals of Natural Selection

Chapter 7 Further Models of Natural Selection

Chapter 8 Molecular Evolution

Chapter 9 Quantitative trait variation and evolution

Chapter 10 The Mendelian basis of quantitative trait variation

Appendix

Literature cited

Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 10.2.2021
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Evolution
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Genetik / Molekularbiologie
• Schlagworte: Biowissenschaften • Conservation Science • evolutionary biology • Evolution (Biol.) • Evolutionsbiologie • Genetik • Human genetics • Humangenetik • Life Sciences • Naturschutzbiologie
• ISBN-10: 1-118-43689-X / 111843689X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-118-43689-9 / 9781118436899