CONSERVATION and the GENETICS of POPULATIONS – Second Edition

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Loss of biodiversity is among the greatest problems facing the world today. Conservation and the Genetics of Populations gives a comprehensive overview of the essential background, concepts, and tools needed to understand how genetic information can be used to conserve species threatened with extinction, and to manage species of ecological or commercial importance.
• New molecular techniques, statistical methods, and computer programs, genetic principles, and methods are becoming increasingly useful in the conservation of biological diversity. Using a balance of data and theory, coupled with basic and applied research examples, this book examines genetic and phenotypic variation in natural populations, the principles and mechanisms of evolutionary change, the interpretation of genetic data from natural populations, and how these can be applied to conservation. • The book includes examples from plants, animals, and microbes in wild and captive populations. This second edition contains new chapters on Climate Change and Exploited Populations as well as new sections on genomics, genetic monitoring, emerging diseases, metagenomics, and more. One-third of the references in this edition were published after the first edition.
• Each of the 22 chapters and the statistical appendix have a Guest Box written by an expert in that particular topic (including James Crow, Louis Bernatchez, Loren Rieseberg, Rick Shine, and Lisette Waits). This book is essential for advanced undergraduate and graduate students of conservation genetics, natural resource management, and conservation biology, as well as professional conservation biologists working for wildlife and habitat management agencies.
• Innehållsförteckning: 1 1 Introduction, 3 1.1 Genetics and civilization, 4 1.2 What should we conserve?, 5 1.3 How should we conserve biodiversity?, 9 1.4 Applications of genetics to conservation, 10 1.5 The future, 12 Guest Box 1: L. Scott Mills and Michael E. Soule, The role of genetics in conservation, 13 2 Phenotypic variation in natural populations, 14 2.1 Color pattern, 17 2.2 Morphology, 20 2.3 Behavior, 23 2.4 Phenology, 25 2.5 Differences among populations, 27 2.6 Nongenetic inheritance, 31 Guest Box 2: Chris J. Foote, Looks can be deceiving: countergradient variation in secondary sexual color in sympatric morphs of sockeye salmon, 32 3 Genetic variation in natural populations: chromosomes and proteins, 34 3.1 Chromosomes, 35 3.2 Protein electrophoresis, 45 3.3 Genetic variation within natural populations, 48 3.4 Genetic divergence among populations, 50 Guest Box 3: E. M. Tuttle, Chromosomal polymorphism in the white-throated …

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