Measuring Selection in Natural Populations: Lecture Notes in Biomathematics, cartea 19

1. Study of Selection.- Estimation of mating cycle components of selection in plants.- Population genetics of Zoarces viviparus (L.), a review.- A study of sexual selection in natural populations of the milkweed beetle, Tetraopes tetraophthalmus.- How does the genome congeal?.- Attempts to measure selection by altering gene frequencies in natural populations.- Genetic variance for viability and linkage disequilibrium in natural populations of Drosophila melanogaster.- Sexual selection and the evolution of territoriality in birds.- Functional aspects of genetic variation.- On conditional inference for deviation from Hardy-Weinberg distribution.- 2. Study of Polymorphism.- Selection and neutrality.- Protein evolution: Nonrandom patterns in related species.- Polymorphism, selection, and multi-locus heterozygosity in the plaice, Pleuronectes platessa L..- Hidden heterogeneity among electrophoretic alleles.- Natural selection and the ?-GPDH locus in Drosophilidae.- Nonrandom associations between allozymes in natural populations of Drosophila melanogaster.- Polymorphism for the number of genes coding for salivary amylase in the bank vole, Clethrionomys glareola.- A geometric formulation of the stability condition at a triallelic locus.- A general model to account for enzyme variation in natural populations. IV The quantitative genetics of viability mutants.- 3. Sex and Evolution.- The sex habit in plants and animals.- Evolution of the sex ratio in the wood lemming, Myopus schisticolor.- Population genetics, demography and the sex ratio.- A comparative study on enzyme polymorphisms in sympatric diploid and polyploid populations of Lumbricillus lineatus (O.F.M.), Enchytraeidae, Oligochaeta.- Selection and genetic differentiation in parthogenetic populations.- 4. Ecology andEvolution.- Cactus-breeding Drosophila — A system for the measurement of natural selection.- Test of the hypothesis that migration balances selection in differentiated subpopulations of Spirorbis borealis.- The selection regime of Philaneus spumarius (L.) (Homoptera).- Effects of a virus on competition and selection in barley.- Selection and interspecific competition.- Coevolution in ecological systems: Results from “loop analysis” for purely density-dependent coevolution.- 5. Human Evolution.- Selection and non-Mendelian variability.- Estimation of the characteristics of rare variants.- The genetics of HLA and disease associations.