| Description |
xii, 240 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
1. Natural Selection, Fitness Determination, and Molecular Variation -- 2. Classes of Abundant Genetic Variation -- 3. Environmental Heterogeneity and Enzyme Polymorphism -- 4. The Impact of a Single Gene -- 5. Patterns of Variation Among Loci -- 6. The Axis of Individual Heterozygosity: Theory -- 7. The Axis of Individual Heterozygosity: Empirical Data -- 8. Female Choice and Male Fitness -- 9. Patterns among Species -- 10. The Sisyphean Cycle -- 11. Comments on Natural Selection -- App. 1. Average Heterozygosity and Genetic Distance Among Species -- App. 2. Pascal Program for the Simulation of the Evolution of Female Choice -- App. 3. Heterozygosity and Maximum Lifetime Fecundity |
| Summary |
In this book, Jeff Mitton explains the questions that geneticists hoped to answer by studying protein variation. He reviews the extensive literature on protein variation, describes the successes and failures of the research program, and evaluates the results of a rich and controversial body of research. The laboratory and field studies using protein polymorphisms revealed dynamic interactions among genotypes, fitness differentials, and fluctuating environmental conditions, and inadvertently wedded the fields of physiological ecology and population biology. Mitton's book is a useful analysis for all scientists interested in the genetic structure and evolution of populations |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-232) and index |
| Subject |
Enzymes -- Evolution.
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Molecular evolution.
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Natural selection.
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Variation (Biology)
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| LC no. |
96049688 |
| ISBN |
019506352X (cloth : alk. paper) |
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