Selection in Natural PopulationsIn 1974, Richard Lewontin published The Genetic Basis of Evolutionary Change, focusing enormous attention on protein variation as both a model of underlying genetic variation and a level of selection itself. In the twenty years since, scientific research has been shifted by the power of molecular biological techniques to explore the nature of variation directly at the DNA and gene levels. The "protein chapter" is coming to a close. 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. |
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... Sample of Proteins 26 Conflicting Perspectives from Molecular and Kinetic Data 28 Summary 28 3 Environmental Heterogeneity and Enzyme Polymorphism 29 Environmental Heterogeneity in Theory 29 Spatial heterogeneity 29 Temporal ...
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Contents
Natural Selection Fitness Determination and Molecular Variation | 3 |
Classes of Abundant Genetic Variation | 14 |
Selection on mitochondrial genome size | 20 |
The Randomness of a Sample of Proteins | 26 |
The Impact of a Single Gene | 41 |
Patterns of Variation Among Loci | 58 |
Discordant Patterns of Geographic Variation | 68 |
Empirical Data | 87 |
Female Choice and Male Fitness | 127 |
Patterns among Species | 144 |
Surveys of Natural Populations | 150 |
Summary | 156 |
Comments on Natural Selection | 167 |
Average Heterozygosity and Genetic Distance Among | 175 |
Heterozygosity and Maximum Lifetime Fecundity | 192 |
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