1: Peter R. Grant and B. Rosemary Grant: Quantitative Genetic
Variation in Populations of Darwin's Finches
2: Barry Sinervo: Adaptation, Natural Selection, and Optimal Life
History Allocation
3: Beren W. Robinson and Dolph Schluter: Natural Selection and the
Evolution of Adaptive Genetic Variation in Northern Freshwater
Fishes
4: Ruedi G. Nager, Lukas F. Keller, and Arie J. van Noordwijk:
Understanding Natural Selection on Traits that are Influenced by
Environmental Conditions
5: Susan Mopper, Keli Landau, and Peter Van Zandt: Adaptive
Evolution and Neutral Variation in a Wild Leafminer
Metapopulation
6: Thomas B. Smith and Derek J. Girman: Reaching New Adaptive
Peaks: Evolution of Alternative Adaptive Bill Forms in an African
Finch
7: Susan J. Mazer and Daniel E. Meade: Geographic Variation in
Flower Size in Wild Radish: The Potential Role of Pollinators in
Population Differentiation
8: Kermit Ritland: Detecting Inheritance with Inferred Relatedness
in Nature
9: Ary A. Hoffmann: Laboratory and Field Heritabilities: Some
Lessons From Drosophila
10: Timothy A. Mousseau: Intra- and Interpopulation Genetic
Variation: Explaining the Past and Predicting the Future
11: John A. Endler: Adaptive Genetic Variation in the Wild
"The eleven chapters...deal with summaries of work on intra- and
interpopulation variation in specific organisms, including Darwin's
finches, leafminers, and Drosophila. The book is a relatively
thorough review of patterns of expressed genetic variation in
natural populations and a summary of the methods (including
molecular ones) for measuring genetic various in the wild." --
Evolution, Vol 54(3), 2000
"This volume is a very useful statement of the current state of
field studies on adaptive variation. Several of the chapters give
clear summaries of some of the definitive studies by key
researchers and, as such, provide an effective shortcul to the
primary literature." -- Ecology
"The central premise of the book is that a complete understanding
of adaptive genetic variation can only emerge from careful,
long-term studies of natural populations. Each chapter in this
multi-authored volume focuses on a different 'model system' that
provides insights into the origin and maintenance of adaptive
genetic variation in the wild. . . .this bok is a valuable guide on
testing Darwin's postulates in the wild."--Trends in Ecology &
Evolution
"Adaptive Genetic Variation in the Wild proposes the idea that a
fundamental objective of evolutionary ecology is to predict
individual, population, community, and ecosystem response to
environmental. . . .This book is therefore an essential tool for
professionals and graduate students in genetics, biology, ecology,
and evolution." -- Biology Digest
"The eleven chapters...deal with summaries of work on intra- and
interpopulation variation in specific organisms, including Darwin's
finches, leafminers, and Drosophila. The book is a relatively
thorough review of patterns of expressed genetic variation in
natural populations and a summary of the methods (including
molecular ones) for measuring genetic various in the wild." --
Evolution, Vol 54(3), 2000
"Adaptive Genetic Variation in the Wild highlights successful
applications of quantitative genetic techniques to discern adaptive
genetic variation in the wild. These case studies demonstrate the
ubiquity of genetic variation for ecologically important traits in
diverse organisms. As such, the book lays the groundwork for future
research on questions that are outlined in a final chapter by
Endler. A number of these questions are longstanding, such as
how within-population genetic variation is transplanted into
variation among populations and variation among species, what
mechanisms maintain genetic variation in the face of selection, and
to what extent
changing environments and genotype X environment interactions
influence and maintain variation. These and other research
questions clearly require careful measurement of genetic variation
in the field, and this book provides some good examples that should
serve as models for future work."--Evolution, Vol 55(8), 2001
"Adaptive Genetic Variation in the Wild proposes the idea that a
fundamental objective of evolutionary ecology is to predict
individual, population, community, and ecosystem response to
environmental chance. . .This book is. . .an essential tool for
professionals and graduate students in genetics, biology, ecology,
and evolution."--Biology Digest
"The central premeis in the book is that a complete understanding
of adaptive genetic variation can only emerge from careful,
long-term studies of natural populations. Each chapterinthis
mulitauthored volume focuses on a different 'model system' that
provides insights inot the origin and maintenance of adaptive
genetic variation in the wild. . .this book is a valuable guide on
testing Darwin's postulates in the world."--TRENDS
"This volume assesses the state of understanding of key issues in
conservation genetics how much genetic variation exists in wild
populations, what measure of adaptive robustness is conferred by
genetic variation within populations, and what the methods are for
monitoring genetic variation within populations."--CAB Abstratcts
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