This book focuses on drosophila as an especially useful model organism for exploring
questions of evolutionary biology in the full range of evolutionary studies: population …

▪ Abstract Allozyme polymorphisms have been the focus of studies of selection at single
enzyme loci, and most involve the enzymes of central metabolism. DNA sequencing of …

The theory of r‐and K‐selection was one of the first predictive models for life‐history
evolution. It helped to galvanize the empirical field of comparative life‐history and dominated …

This valuable book thoroughly examines adaptive evolution at the DNA level while taking a
comprehensive look at the research being done in the area. It presents useful cases where …

Publisher Summary Charles Robert Darwin's first major scientific forays were into geology,
where he studied catastrophes. As a geologist he questioned coral reefs, and suggested …

Among all of Darwin's (1859) original ideas in The Origin of Species, the principle of
adaptation, or evolution by natural selection, was the most central to his theory. It was also …

Understanding the genetic basis of adaptation to novel environments remains one of the
major challenges confronting evolutionary biologists. While newly developed genomic …

Populations of the teleost fish Fundulus heteroclitus are subjected to the clinical variation in
environmental temperatures that occurs along the eastern seacoast of North America. In …

SYNOPSIS. Larvae of the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, live within necrotic fruit, a
challenging environment in which larvae can experience severe thermal stress. One …

Advances in next-generation sequencing technologies have liberated our dependency on
model laboratory species for answering genomic and transcriptomic level questions. These …