Genetics of Adaptation - Mauricio, Rodney; SpringerLink (Online service) (Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2005)
Natura non facit saltum -- Theories of adaptation: what they do and don't say -- Testing hypotheses regarding the genetics of adaptation -- QTL mapping and the genetic basis of adaptation: recent developments -- Sex differences in recombination and mapping adaptations -- Genetics and adaptation in structured populations: sex ratio evolution in Silene vulgaris -- Studying genetics of adaptive variation in model organisms: flowering time variation in Arabidopsis lyrata -- Ontogenetics of QTL: the genetic architecture of trichome density over time in Arabidopsis thaliana -- Epistasis and genotype-environment interaction for quantitative trait loci affecting flowering time in Arabidopsis thaliana -- Evolution in heterogeneous environments and the potential of maintenance of genetic variation in traits of adaptive significance -- The genetic basis of adaptation: lessons from concealing coloration in pocket mice -- The genetics of adaptation in Drosophila sechellia -- Back to the future: genetic correlations, adaptation and speciation -- Parallel genotypic adaptation: when evolution repeats itself -- Hybridization as a source of evolutionary novelty: leaf shape in a Hawaiian composite -- Discovery and utilization of QTLs for insect resistance in soybean -- Polyploidy, evolutionary opportunity, and crop adaptation -- Quantitative trait loci and the study of plant domestication -- Can ecology help genomics: the genome as ecosystem?.
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