Molecular Ecology and Evolution: Approaches and Applications

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Front Matter....Pages 1-3
Arbitrary primer mediated fingerprinting in plants: Case studies in plant breeding, taxonomy and phylogeny....Pages 5-15
DNA amplification fingerprinting: A general tool with applications in breeding, identification and phylogenetic analysis of plants....Pages 17-31
The analysis of simple repeat loci as applied in evolutionary and behavioral sciences....Pages 33-43
Multilocus DNA fingerprinting and genetic relatedness in plants: A case study with banana and tomato....Pages 45-59
Measuring reproductive success in insects....Pages 61-74
Unravelling the components that underlie insect reproductive traits using a simple molecular approach....Pages 75-90
Molecular analysis of kinship in birds: Interesting questions and useful techniques....Pages 91-126
Front Matter....Pages 127-129
Molecular techniques in population genetics: A brief history....Pages 131-156
Organization of genetic variation at the molecular level: Lessons from Drosophila ....Pages 157-183
The use of microsatellite analysis in population biology: Background, methods and potential applications....Pages 185-201
The use of microsatellites for genetic analysis of natural populations....Pages 203-214
PCR assays of variable nucleotide sites for identification of conservation units....Pages 215-226
Concerted evolution and RAPping in mitochondrial VNTRs and the molecular geography of cricket populations....Pages 227-245
Molecular markers and evolutionary processes in hermaphrodite freshwater snails....Pages 247-260
Extinction and the formation of phylogenetic lineages: Diagnosing units of conservation management in the tiger beetle Cicindela dorsalis ....Pages 261-273
Perspective on conservation genetics....Pages 275-280
Front Matter....Pages 281-284
Advances in the theory and practice of DNA-hybridization as a systematic method....Pages 285-297
Allozymes in mammalian population genetics and systematics: Indicative function of a marker system reconsidered....Pages 299-310
Analysis of DNA from natural history museum collections....Pages 311-321
Sources of ambiguity in nucleic acid sequence alignment....Pages 323-352
Front Matter....Pages 281-284
Computational problems in molecular systematics....Pages 353-370
The comparison of morphological and molecular data in phylogenetic systematics....Pages 371-390
Non-coding chloroplast DNA for plant molecular systematics at the infrageneric level....Pages 391-403
Developing model systems for molecular biogeography: Vicariance and interchange in marine invertebrates....Pages 405-433
Bridging phylogenetics and population genetics with gene tree models....Pages 435-449
Front Matter....Pages 451-454
The role of molecular genetics in speciation studies....Pages 455-477
The origin and evolution of species differences in Escherichia coli and Salmonella typhimurium ....Pages 479-493
The evolutionary ecology of Daphnia ....Pages 495-508
Diversity within diversity: Molecular approaches to studying microbial interactions with insects....Pages 509-524
Evolutionary analysis of genes involved in early embryonic pattern formation in Drosophila ....Pages 525-536
Developmental genes and the origin and evolution of Metazoa....Pages 537-549
To what extent does genetic information determine structural characteristics and document homologies?....Pages 551-558
Evolution and multi-functionality of the chitin system....Pages 559-577
Genome evolution: Between the nucleosome and the chromosome....Pages 579-592
Individual genes underlying quantitative traits: Molecular and analytical methods....Pages 593-606
Perspectives on future applications of experimental biology to evolution....Pages 607-616
Back Matter....Pages 617-626