Evolution of Biological Diversity

by Magurran, Anne E.; May, Robert M.

• ISBN13: 9780198503057
• ISBN10: 0198503059
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-06-24
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Preface, Robert M. May and Anne E. Magurran


List of Contributors


1. The evolutionary genetics of speciation, J. A. Coyne and H. A. Orr


2. Genetic diversity: do marker genes tell us the whole story?, T. Tregenza and

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	xi
The evolutionary genetics of speciation	1	(36)
J. A. Coyne
H. A. Orr
Genetic diversity: do marker genes tell us the whole story?	37	(19)
T. Tregenza
R. K. Butlin
Genetic diversity in natural populations	56	(14)
J. Harwood
W. Amos
Sympatric morphs, populations and speciation in freshwater fish with emphasis on arctic charr	70	(23)
S. Skulason
S. S. Snorrason
B. Jonsson
Sexual selection and natural selection in bird speciation	93	(20)
T. Price
Explosive speciation of African cichlid fishes	113	(17)
G. F. Turner
Sexual conflict and speciation	130	(30)
L. Partridge
G. A. Parker
Population differentiation without speciation	160	(24)
A. E. Magurran
From genes to individuals: developmental genes and the generation of the phenotype	184	(18)
D. Tautz
K. Schmid
Revealing the factors that promote speciation	202	(18)
T. G. Barraclough
A. P. Vogler
P. H. Harvey
Gulliver's further travels: the necessity and difficulty of a hierarchical theory of selection	220	(16)
S. J. Gould
Geographic range size and speciation	236	(24)
K. J. Gaston
S. L. Chown
Rates of speciation in the fossil record	260	(23)
J. J. Sepkoski, Jr
The evolution of diversity in ancient ecosystems: a review	283	(40)
S. Conway Morris
Index	323