Genetics, Speciation, and the Founder Principle

by Giddings, L.V.; Kaneshiro, Kenneth Y.; Anderson, Wyatt W.

• ISBN13: 9780195043150
• ISBN10: 0195043154
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1989-06-01
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This book describes the genetic mechanisms that govern the development and evolution of animals and plants. In particular, the book focuses on animal and plant species evolving in isolated habitats and species colonizing new territories. This approach--studying "founder" populations--enables geneticists to more readily identify some of the evolutionary pressures affecting the speciation process. The Founder Principle in population genetics was elucidated in large part by Hampton Carson in classic studies of Hawaiian fruit flies (Drosophila). The editors of this volume have commissioned seventeen chapters by an internationally recognized group of geneticists who discuss the principle in relation to plant speciation, chromosomal evolution, molecular evolution and development, sexual selection, and genetic changes in natural populations.

Table of Contents

Historical Perspective

H. L. Carson: Interviews Toward an Intellectual History

Founder Effects and Genetic Revolutions in Microevolution and Speciation: A Historical Perspective

Plant Speciation and the Founder Principle

Adaptive Radiation of the Hawaiian Silversword Alliance: A Comparison with Hawaiian Picture-Winged Drosophila

Adaptive Radiation in Hawaiian Bidens

Plant Speciation and the Founder Principle

Founder Effects and Chromosomal Evolution

Chromosomal Evolution and Speciation in Hawaiian Drosophila

Is There a Role for Meiotic Drive in Karyotype Evolution?

Founder Effects in Molecular Evolution and Developmental Biology

Genomic DNA Variation Within and Between Closely Related Species of Hawaiian Drosophila

Gene Regulation and Evolution

A Classical Counterpoint

The Nature and Role of Peripheral Isolates in the Origin of Species

Founder Effects and Sexual Selection

The Effects of Founder-Flush Cycles on Ethological Isolation in Laboratory Populations of Drosophila

Origin of Drosophila of the Sonoran Desert: In Search for a Founder Event

The Dynamics of Sexual Selection and Founder Effects in Species Formation

Founder Effects and Genetic Changes in Natural Populations

Human Evolution and the "Founder-Flush" Principle

The Genetic Basis of Adaptive Evolution in the Grimshawi species complex of Hawaiian Drosophila

Founder Effects and the Evolution of Reproductive Isolation

Genetic Imbalance, Realigned Selection and the Origin of Species

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