Adaptive genetic variation in the wild (Oxford University Press, 2000)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Quantitative genetic variation in populations of Darwin's finches / Peter R. Grant, B. Rosemary Grant -- Adaptation, natural selection, and optimal life-history allocation in the face of genetically based trade-offs / Barry Sinervo -- Natural selection and the evolution of adaptive genetic variation in northern freshwater fishes / Beren W. Robinson, Dolph Schluter -- Understanding natural selection on traits that are influenced by environmental conditions / Ruedi G. Nager, Lukas F. Keller, Arie J. van Noordwijk -- Adaptive evolution and neutral variation in a wild leafminer metapopulation / Susan Mopper, Keli Landau, Peter Van Zandt -- Reaching new adaptive peaks: evolution of alternative bill forms in an African finch / Thomas B. Smith, Derek J. Girman -- Geographic variation in flower size in wild radish: the potential role of pollinators in population differentiation / Susan J. Mazer, Daniel E. Meade -- Detecting inheritance with inferred relatedness in nature / Kermit Ritland -- Laboratory and field heritabilities: some lessons from Drosophila / Ary A. Hoffmann -- Intra-and interpopulation genetic variation: explaining the past and predicting the future / Timothy A. Mousseau -- Adaptive genetic variation in the wild / John A. Endler
"This book, featuring a superb selection of papers from leading authors, summarises the state of current understanding about the extent of genetic variation within wild populations and the ways to monitor such variation. It proposes the idea that a fundamental objective of evolutionary ecology is necessary to predict organism, population, community and ecosystem response to environmental change. In fact, the overall theme of the papers centres around the expression of genetic variation and how it is shaped by the action of natural selection in the natural environment." (Publisher's Web page)