Dobzhansky's Genetics of Natural Populations I-XLIII

Dobzhansky's Genetics of Natural Populations I-XLIII
Author: Theodosius Dobzhansky
Publisher:
Total Pages: 942
Release: 2003
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780231131230

A reproduction of the forty-three articles that make up "The Genetics of Natural Populations" series, perhaps the most important single corpus in modern evolutionary genetics.

Genetics of Natural Populations

Genetics of Natural Populations
Author: Louis Levine
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 418
Release: 1995
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780231081160

A discussion of the life and wok of Theodosius Dobzhansky and an assessment of the current research that has the origins in his findings and contributions.

Genetics of Speciation

Genetics of Speciation
Author: David L. Jameson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 360
Release: 1977
Genre: Evolution
ISBN:

The nature of populations, races, subspecies, and species. Genetic basis of isolation. Origin of isolation - theoretical. Origin of isolation - experimental. The nature of the speciation process.

Essays in Evolution and Genetics in Honor of Theodosius Dobzhansky

Essays in Evolution and Genetics in Honor of Theodosius Dobzhansky
Author: Max K. Hecht
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 601
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1461595851

It is not often that one has the opportunity to send a public birthday greet ing to a friend and colleague of many years, and to congratulate him on having reached the age of reason. In fact it happens only once, and comes then as a surprise. Surely it was only a few years ago that we sat together at an International Genetics Congress in Ithaca, and only yesterday that we became members of the same department. The eighth floor of Schermerhorn Hall had a north end where the flies were and a south end furnished with mice, and in between, a seminar room and laboratory. There the distances were short and the doors open and the coffee pot busy. But it now appears that yesterday has fallen thirty years behind and that we have grown up. I find it interesting and appropriate that Dobzhansky's lifetime spans the period of maturation of the fields to which this volume is devoted. This is true in a chronological sense for his birth occurred in the same year, 1900, in which modern genetics began. The rediscovery of Mendel's princi ples and the interpretation of the nature of heredity and variation to which this event led were necessary prerequisites to the development of evolution ary biology as presented in this collection of essays.

Human Culture

Human Culture
Author: Theodosius Dobzhansky
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 204
Release: 1983
Genre: Culture
ISBN: 9780231056335

Ecological Genomics

Ecological Genomics
Author: Christian R. Landry
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 358
Release: 2013-11-25
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9400773471

Researchers in the field of ecological genomics aim to determine how a genome or a population of genomes interacts with its environment across ecological and evolutionary timescales. Ecological genomics is trans-disciplinary by nature. Ecologists have turned to genomics to be able to elucidate the mechanistic bases of the biodiversity their research tries to understand. Genomicists have turned to ecology in order to better explain the functional cellular and molecular variation they observed in their model organisms. We provide an advanced-level book that covers this recent research and proposes future development for this field. A synthesis of the field of ecological genomics emerges from this volume. Ecological Genomics covers a wide array of organisms (microbes, plants and animals) in order to be able to identify central concepts that motivate and derive from recent investigations in different branches of the tree of life. Ecological Genomics covers 3 fields of research that have most benefited from the recent technological and conceptual developments in the field of ecological genomics: the study of life-history evolution and its impact of genome architectures; the study of the genomic bases of phenotypic plasticity and the study of the genomic bases of adaptation and speciation.

Classical Genetic Research and Its Legacy

Classical Genetic Research and Its Legacy
Author: Jean-Paul Gaudillière
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2004-10-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 113433415X

With the rise of genomics, the life sciences have entered a new era. This book provides a comprehensive history of mapping procedures as they were developed in classical genetics. An accompanying volume - From Molecular Genetics to Genomics - covers the history of molecular genetics and genomics. The book shows that the technology of genetic mapping is by no means a recent acquisition of molecular genetics or even genetic engineering. It demonstrates that the development of mapping technologies has accompanied the rise of modern genetics from its very beginnings. In Section One, Mendelian genetics is set in perspective from the viewpoint of the detection and description of linkage phenomena. Section Two addresses the role of mapping for the experimental working practice of classical geneticists, their social interactions and for the laboratory 'life worlds'. With detailed analyses of the scientific practices of mapping and its illustration of the diversity of mapping practices this book is a significant contibution to the history of genetics. A companion volume from the same editors - From Molecular Genetics to Genomics: The Mapping Cultures of Twentieth Century Genetics - covers the history of molecular genetics and genomics.