Genetic structure and local adaptation in natural insect populations
Subtitle: effects of ecology, life history, and behavior
By: edited by Susan Mopper, Sharon Y. Strauss.
Contributors: Mopper, Susan.; Strauss, Sharon Y.
Publisher: Chapman & Hall
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 449
Subjects: Phytophagous insects -- Genetics.; Insect populations.; Phytophagous insects -- Adaptation.
Description: Providing an essential foundation for evolutionary theory, this comprehensive volume examines patterns of genetic variation within natural insect populations, and explores the underlying mechanisms that lead to the genetic divergence of coexisting organisms. In particular, the text investigates current research on fine-scale genetic structure in natural insect populations.

This broad-ranging, interdisciplinary source of information supplies a thorough examination of the mechanisms that promote and impede genetic structure in natural insect populations. It is a book that will be of interest to undergraduate and graduate students, and to researchers in the fields of ecology, evolution, insect and plant systems, entomology, and population genetics.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.