Molecular Evolution and Adaptive Radiation - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521779294 ISBN 13: 9780521779296

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2000

Synopsis

Molecular Evolution and Adaptive Radiation surveys recent advances in the study of adaptive radiation by bringing together a set of international experts investigating a wide range of organisms in a variety of geographic settings. Givnish and Sytsma show how family trees derived from molecular characters can be used to analyze the origin and pattern of ecological and morphological diversification within a lineage in a noncircular fashion. They synthesize the recent explosion of research in this area, involving organisms as diverse as epiphytic and terrestrial orchids, water hyacinths, African cichlids, New World monkeys, tropical fruit bats, carnivorous bromeliads, Hawaiian silverswords and fruit flies, North American Daphnia, Caribbean anoles, Canadian sticklebacks, and Australian marsupials. This volume will be of interest to graduate students and professional scientists in ecology, evolutionary biology, systematics, and biogeography.

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Book Description

This volume surveys recent advances in the study of adaptive radiation by bringing together a set of international experts studying adaptive radiation in a wide range of organisms in a variety of geographic settings. It shows how family trees derived from molecular characters can be used to analyze the origin and pattern of ecological and morphological diversification within a lineage in a non-circular fashion. This book synthesizes the recent explosion of research in this area, involving organisms as diverse as epiphytic and terrestrial orchids, New World monkeys, North American Daphnia, and Australian marsupials amongst others.

Review

"The editors have put together a very handsome volume with an impressive cast of characters to summarize the proceedings of a meeting on molecular evolution and adaptive radiations...The incorporation of molecular data and phylogenetic techniques in the study of adaptive radiations is a welcome and necessary development and this book demonstrates the potential this endeavor holds for evolutionary biology." Rob DeSalle, The Quarterly Review of Biology

"The editors have put together a very handsome volume with an impressive cast of characters (both authors and study systems) to summarize the proceedings of a meeting on molecular evolution...The incorporation of molecular data and phylogenetic techniques in the study of adaptive radiations is a welcome and necessary development and this book demonstrates the potential this endeavor holds for evolutionary biology." American Journal of Botany

"The editors of Molecular Evolution and Adaptive Radiation, Tom Givnish and Ken Sytsma, have mixed fascinating case studies of adaptive radiations in a diversity of taxa with a very particular point of view regarding this ill-defined evolutionary process...a truly thought-provoking and significant book. Anyone interested in visiting or revisiting this centerpiece issue in evolutionary biology would do well to start here." American Journal of Botany

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0521779294
• ISBN 13: 9780521779296
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 640
• Editor: Givnish Thomas J., Sytsma Kenneth J.