1. The study of quantitative genetics in wild populations -- 2. Four decades of estimating heritabilities in wild vertebrate populations -- 3. Quantitative genetic approaches to understanding sexual selection and mating system evolution in the wild -- 4. Individual behaviour : behavioural ecology meets quantitative genetics -- 5. The quantitative genetics of senescence in wild animals -- 6. The effects of others' genes : maternal and other indirect genetic effects -- 7. Dominance genetic variance and inbreeding in natural populations -- 8. Cross-pollination of plants and animals : wild quantitative genetics and plant evolutionary genetics -- 9. Quantitative genetics of wild populations of arthropods -- 10. Case study : quantitative genetics and sexual selection of weaponry in a wild ungulate -- 11. Epigenetic processes and genetic architecture in character origination and evolution -- 12. Evolutionary potential and constraints in wild populations -- 13. Molecular quantitative genetics -- 14. Bayesian approaches to the quantitative genetic analysis of natural populations -- 15. Evolutionary dynamics in response to climate change
Summary
This title gathers the expertise of 30 evolutionary biologists from around the globe to highlight how applying the field of quantitative genetics - the analysis of the genetic basis of complex traits - aids in the study of wild populations
