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| Preface | |
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| Acronyms, Abbreviations, and Symbols | |
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| Introduction | |
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| What is Ecological Genetics? | |
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| Overview of the Book | |
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| Basic Genetic Terms | |
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| Population genetics I: Genetic variation, random and nonrandom mating | |
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| What is Population Genetics? | |
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| What are populations and why are they important? | |
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| Genetic Variation | |
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| Measuring Genetic Variation: Genetic Markers | |
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| Visible polymorphisms | |
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| Molecular markers | |
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| Protein electrophoresis | |
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| DNA markers | |
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| Measuring Genetic Variation: Simple Summary Statistics | |
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| Organization of Genetic Variation within Populations | |
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| Random mating | |
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| Assumptions of the Hardy-Weinberg model | |
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| What Is a Model? | |
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| Deriving the Hardy-Weinberg equations | |
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| Uses of the Hardy-Weinberg Model: Tests for Departure from HWE | |
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| A Brief Introduction to Statistics | |
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| Recessive alleles hidden in heterozygotes | |
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| Nonrandom Mating | |
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| Assortative mating | |
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| Inbreeding | |
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| Problems | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| Chapter References | |
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| Population genetics II: Changes in allele frequency | |
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| Mutation | |
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| Migration | |
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| Genetic Drift | |
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| Random genetic drift | |
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| Population differentiation | |
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| F-statistics | |
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| Calculation of F-statistics | |
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| Effective population size (N[subscript e]) | |
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| Inbreeding with random mating in small populations | |
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| Natural Selection: Selection on Genotypes | |
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| Example of Inbreeding Depression Due to Genetic Drift | |
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| Fitness | |
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| How does selection at one locus change allele frequencies at that locus? | |
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| Overdominance or heterozygote advantage | |
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| Frequency dependent selection | |
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| Population Genetics: Synthesis | |
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| Interactions Between the Four Evolutionary Forces | |
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| Mutation-selection balance | |
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| Selection vs. migration | |
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| Selection vs. genetic drift | |
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| Migration vs. genetic drift | |
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| Methods of measuring gene flow | |
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| Selection, genetic drift, and gene flow: Wright's shifting balance theory | |
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| Problems | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| Suggested Readings Questions | |
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| Chapter References | |
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| Quantitative genetics I: Genetic variation | |
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| Mendelian Basis of Continuous Traits | |
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| Different types of gene action | |
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| How can we quantify gene action? | |
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| Population mean | |
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| Population variance | |
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| Breeding value | |
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| Heritability | |
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| Estimating Additive Variance and Heritability | |
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| Offspring-parent regression | |
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| Regression Details | |
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| Maternal and paternal effects | |
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| Sibling analyses | |
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| Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) | |
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| Comparison of methods | |
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| Problems | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| Suggested Readings Questions | |
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| Chapter References | |
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| Quantitative genetics II: Advanced topics | |
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| Phenotypic Plasticity and Genotype-by-Environment Interaction | |
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| Two-Way ANOVA | |
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| Multiple Subpopulations--Differentiation vs. Adaptive Plasticity | |
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| Correlations Among Traits | |
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| Sources of genetic covariance among traits | |
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| What can cause linkage disequilibrium? | |
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| Mechanisms of genetic correlations in nature | |
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| Artificial Selection | |
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| Advantages and disadvantages of artificial selection | |
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| QTL Mapping | |
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| Problems | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| Suggested Readings Questions | |
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| Chapter References | |
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| Natural selection on phenotypes | |
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| The Chicago School Approach to Phenotypic Evolution | |
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| Selective Agents and Targets | |
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| Multiple traits; direct and indirect selection | |
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| Selection gradients | |
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| Experimental manipulation | |
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| Correlational selection | |
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| How do we study selective agents? | |
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| Notes on the Study of Adaptation | |
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| Synthesis: Predicting Short-Term Phenotypic Evolution | |
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| Summary of Bivariate Relationships in Ecological Genetics | |
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| The Future of Ecological Genetics | |
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| Problems | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| Suggested Readings Questions | |
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| Chapter References | |
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| Applied ecological genetics | |
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| Conservation Genetics | |
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| What is the unit to be conserved? | |
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| How do genetic factors directly affect extinction risk? | |
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| Adaptation to environmental change in the future | |
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| Conservation genetics in the future | |
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| Evolution of Invasive Species | |
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| Transgene Escape | |
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| Establishment of transgenes in wild populations | |
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| Fitness effects of transgenes | |
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| Strategies to reduce transgene escape risk | |
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| Evolution of Resistance to Pesticides and Antibiotics | |
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| Selection | |
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| Genetic variance and covariance | |
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| Gene flow and population structure | |
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| Resistance management | |
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| The Future of Applied Ecological Genetics | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| Suggested Readings Questions | |
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| Chapter References | |
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| Appendix | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Index | |