Rapidly Evolving Genes and Genetic Systems - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0199642273 ISBN 13: 9780199642274

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2012

Synopsis

Ever since the pioneering work of Darwin and Wallace, evolutionary biologists have tried to understand the evolutionary dynamics of genetic systems. A range of theories on the rates of evolution-from static to gradual to punctuated to quantum-have been developed, mostly by comparing morphological changes over geological timescales as described in the fossil record. However, new paleontological, experimental, molecular, and genomic investigations have injected a tremendous amount of new data and fresh perspectives, offering valuable insights on the rates of evolutionary change, particularly in those fast-evolving genetic systems.

Rapidly Evolving Genes and Genetic Systems captures these recent exciting developments by bringing together information from morphological, molecular, cellular, developmental, and genetic investigations of both natural and experimental populations across a diversity of life forms. It provides case studies that exemplify rapid evolution, and showcases the diversity of rapidly evolving genes and genetic systems, emphasizing the extremely important roles that they play in adaptation, speciation, and the generation and maintenance of a diversity of biological traits and properties.

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About the Author

RAMA S. SINGH is a Professor in the Department of Biology at McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
JIANPING XU is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
ROB J. KULATHINAL is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Biology, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA USA

Review

"...this volume provides a highly diverse, informative, and authoritative overview of the state of the art in the study of rapid evolution that is recommended to anyone interested in evolution." --Quarterly Review of Biology

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0199642273
• ISBN 13: 9780199642274
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 312
• Editor: Singh Rama S., Xu Jianping, Kulathinal Rob J.