Selection the mechanism of evolution - Bell, Graham (Oxford University Press, 2008)
Includes bibliographical references and index
This text adopts a direct experimental approach to evolutionary questions, drawing predominantly from research on microbial systems. The focus is on processes and mechanisms, and incorporates insights from recent advances in whole-genome sequencing, bioinformatics, environmental genomics and developmental genetics
7 - Natural selection in open populations -- - 7.1 - Fitness in natural populations -- - 7.2 - Phenotypic selection -- - 7.3 - Selection experiments in the field -- - 7.4 - Adaptation to the humanized landscape -- - 7.5 - The ghost of selection past -- - 8 - Adaptive radiation : diversity and specialization -- - 8.1 - Adaptive and non-adaptive radiation -- - 8.2 - G X E -- - 8.3 - Specialization and generalization -- - 8.4 - Opportunities in space : obligations in time -- - 8.5 - Local adaptation -- - 9 - Autoselection : selfish genetic elements -- - 9.1 - Infection -- - 9.2 - Interference -- - 9.3 - Gonotaxis -- - 10 - Social selection -- - 10.1 - Selection within a single uniform population : density-dependent selection -- - 10.2 - Selection within a single diverse population : frequency-dependent selection -- - 10.3 - Social behaviour -- - 10.4 - Kin selection and group selection -- - 11 - Co-evolution -- - 11.1 - Rivals -- - 11.2 - Partners -- - 11.3 - Enemies -- - 11.4 - Ecosystems -- - 12 - Sexual selection -- - 12.1 - Evolution of sex -- - 12.2 - The alternation of generations -- - 12.3 - Gender -- - 12.4 - Beauty and the beast -- - 13 - Speciation -- - 13.1 - Speciation and diversification -- - 13.2 - Experimental speciation -- - 13.3 - Emerging species -- - 14 - Epitome -- - References -- - Index
The second science -- - 1 - Simple selection -- - 2 - The genetic and ecological context of selection -- - 2.1 - History, chance, and necessity -- - 2.2 - The rate of genetic deterioration -- - 2.3 - The rate of environmental deterioration -- - 3 - Natural selection in closed asexual populations -- - 3.1 - Microcosmologia -- - 3.2 - Sorting : selection or pre-existing variation -- - 3.3 - Purifying selection : maintaining adaptedness despite genetic deterioration -- - 3.4 - Directional selection : restoring adaptedness despite environmental deterioration -- - 3.5 - Successive substitution -- - 3.6 - Cumulative adaptation -- - 3.7 - Successive substitution at several loci -- - 4 - Prometheus unbound : releasing the constraints on natural selection -- - 4.1 - Increasing the mutation rate -- - 4.2 - Horizontal transmission -- - 4.3 - Sex -- - 4.4 - Dispersal -- - 5 - Selection in multicellular organisms -- - 5.1 - Size matters -- - 5.2 - Reproductive allocation -- - 5.3 - Life histories -- - 6 - Artificial selection -- - 6.1 - Selection acting on quantitative variation -- - 6.2 - Generations 1-10 : the short-term response -- - 6.3 - Generations 10-1000 : the limits to selection -- - g 6.4 - Generations 100 up : new kinds of creatures