Measuring Selection in Natural Populations

Front Matter....Pages I-XXXI
Estimation of Mating Cycle Components of Selection in Plants....Pages 1-19
Population Genetics of Zoarces Viviparus (L.): A Review....Pages 21-47
A Study of Sexual Selection in Natural Populations of the Milkweed Beetle, Tetraopes Tetraophthalmus ....Pages 49-64
How does the Genome Congeal?....Pages 65-82
Attempts to Measure Natural Selection by Altering Gene Frequencies in Natural Populations....Pages 83-96
Genetic Variance for Viability and Linkage Disequilibrium in Natural Populations of Drosophila Melanogaster ....Pages 97-112
Sexual Selection and the Evolution of Territoriality in Birds....Pages 113-129
Functional Aspects of Genetic Variation....Pages 131-147
On Conditional Inference for Deviation from Hardy-Weinberg Distribution....Pages 149-157
Selection and Neutrality....Pages 159-175
Protein Evolution: Nonrandom Patterns in Related Species....Pages 177-205
Polymorphism, Selection, and Multi-Locus Heterozygosity in the Plaice, Pleuronectes Platessa L.....Pages 207-221
Hidden Heterogeneity among Electrophoretic Alleles....Pages 223-244
Natural Selection and the α-GPDH Locus in Drosophilidae ....Pages 245-264
Nonrandom Associations between Allozymes in Natural Populations of Drosophila Melanogaster ....Pages 265-273
Polymorphism for the Number of Genes Coding for Salivary Amylase in the Bank Vole Clethrionomys Glareola ....Pages 275-289
A Geometric Formulation of the Stability Condition at a Tri-Allelic Locus....Pages 291-300
A General Model to Account for Enzyme Variation in Natural Populations. IV. The Quantitative Genetics of Viability Mutants....Pages 301-314
The Sex Habit in Plants and Animals....Pages 315-331
Evolution of the Sex Ratio in the Wood Lemming, Myopus schisticolor ....Pages 333-343
Population Genetics, Demography and the Sex Ratio....Pages 345-363
A Comparative Study on Enzyme Polymorphisms in Sympatric Diploid and Polyploid Populations of Lumbricillus Lineatus (O.F.M.) Enchytraeidae Oligochaeta....Pages 365-379
Selection and Genetic Differentiation in Parthenogenetic Populations....Pages 381-402
Cactus-Breeding Drosophila — A System for the Measurement of Natural Selection....Pages 403-430
Test of the Hypothesis that Migration Balances Selection in Differentiated Subpopulations of Spirorbis Borealis ....Pages 431-443
The Selection Regime of Philaenus Spumarius (L.) (Homoptera)....Pages 445-463
Effects of a Virus on Competition and Selection in Barley....Pages 465-476
Selection and Interspecific Competition....Pages 477-498
Coevolution in Ecological Systems: Results from “Loop Analysis” for Purely Density-Dependent Coevolution....Pages 499-517
Selection and Non-Mendelian Variability....Pages 519-530
Estimation of the Characteristics of Rare Variants....Pages 531-543
The Genetics of HLA and Disease Associations....Pages 545-564
Back Matter....Pages 565-565