Genetic constraints on adaptive evolution
By: Volker Loeschcke, ed.
Contributors: Loeschcke, V. 1950-
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Published: 1987
Place of publication: Berlin; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 188
Subjects: Evolution (Biology); Genetics; Adaptation (Biology)
Notes: Includes bibliographies and index.
Table of contents: title: A quantitative genetic perspective on adaptive evolution / J.S.F. Barker and R.H. Thomas; title: Genetic correlations / A.G. Clark; title: Genetic constraints on the evolution of phenotypic plasticity / S. Via; title: Reflections on the genetics of quantitative traits with continuous environmental variation / A.J. van Noordwijk and M. Gebhardt; title: Three approches to trade-offs in life-history evolution / M.R. Rose, P.M. Service, and E.W. Hutchinson; title: Pleiotropy in dynamical parameters of models on the evolution of simple phenotypes / F.B. Christiansen; title: Constraints in selection response / W. Scharloo; title: Nonrandom patterns of mutation are reflected in evolutionary divergence and may cause some of the unusual patterns observed in sequences / G.B. Golding; title: Genetic constraints on plant adaptive evolution / B.A. Schaal and W.J. Leverich.