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Evolutionary Quantitative Genetics Prof Stevan J. Arnold (Professor Emeritus, Professor Emeritus, Dept Integrative Biology, Oregon State University, USA)

Evolutionary Quantitative Genetics By Prof Stevan J. Arnold (Professor Emeritus, Professor Emeritus, Dept Integrative Biology, Oregon State University, USA)

Summary

A concise, accessible introduction to the principal ideas, methods, and underlying statistical concepts for understanding and applying evolutionary quantitative genetics. It includes a broad taxonomic range of examples - human, animal, and plant; both model organisms and wild populations.

Evolutionary Quantitative Genetics Summary

Evolutionary Quantitative Genetics by Prof Stevan J. Arnold (Professor Emeritus, Professor Emeritus, Dept Integrative Biology, Oregon State University, USA)

Evolutionary quantitative genetics (EQG) provides a formal theoretical foundation for quantitatively linking natural selection and genetic variation to the rate and expanse of adaptive evolution. It has become the dominant conceptual framework for interpreting the evolution of quantitative traits in terms of elementary forces (mutation, inheritance, selection, and drift). Despite this success, the relevance of EQG to many biological scenarios remains relatively unappreciated, with numerous fields yet to fully embrace its approach. Part of the reason for this lag is that conceptual advances in EQG have not yet been fully synthesized and made accessible to a wider academic audience. A comprehensive, accessible overview is therefore now timely, and Evolutionary Quantitative Genetics provides this much-needed synthesis. The central argument of the book is that an adaptive landscape concept can be used to understand both evolutionary process within lineages and the pattern of adaptive radiations. In particular, it provides a convincing argument that models with a moving adaptive peak carry us further than any other conceptual approach yet devised. Although additive theory holds center stage, the book mentions and references departures from additivity including non-Gaussian distributions of allelic effects, dominance, epistasis, maternal effects and phenotypic plasticity. This accessible, advanced textbook is aimed principally at students (from senior undergraduate to postgraduate) as well as practising scientists in the fields of evolutionary biology, ecology, physiology, functional morphology, developmental biology, comparative biology, paleontology, and beyond who are interested in how adaptive radiations are produced by evolutionary and ecological processes.

About Prof Stevan J. Arnold (Professor Emeritus, Professor Emeritus, Dept Integrative Biology, Oregon State University, USA)

Stevan J. Arnold is Professor Emeritus, Department of Integrative Biology, Oregon State University, USA. He was made a Fellow of the AAA&S (American Academy of Arts and Sciences) in 2009, and has held the presidency of both the Society for the Study of Evolution (1998) and the American Society of Naturalists (2012). He is one of the top experts in the field and has published large numbers of highly cited academic articles in the realm of quantitative genetics.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1: Selection on a Single Trait 2: Selection on Multiple Traits 3: The Selection Surface and Adaptive Landscape for a Single Trait 4: The Selection Surface and Adaptive Landscape for Multiple Traits 5: Inheritance of a Single Trait 6: Inheritance of Multiple Traits 7: Modularity, Performance, and Functional Complexes 8: Drift of a Single, Neutral Trait 9: Drift of Multiple, Neutral Traits 10: Response of a Single Trait to Selection 11: Response of Multiple Traits to Selection 12: Evolution of a Single Trait on a Stationary Adaptive Landscape 13: Evolution of Multiple Traits on a Stationary Adaptive Landscape 14: Trait Evolution on Dynamic Adaptive Landscapes 15: Evolution of Genetic Variance 16: Evolution of the G-Matrix on a Stationary Adaptive Landscape 17: Evolution of the G-Matrix on Dynamic Adaptive Landscapes 18: Evolution Along Selective Lines of Least Resistance 19: Speciation and Extinction of Lineages 20: Coevolution of Species with Trait-Based Interactions 21: Coevolution of Species with Density-Dependent Interactions 22: From Evolutionary Process to Pattern: A Synthesis

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NGR9780192859396
9780192859396
0192859390
Evolutionary Quantitative Genetics by Prof Stevan J. Arnold (Professor Emeritus, Professor Emeritus, Dept Integrative Biology, Oregon State University, USA)
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Oxford University Press
2023-07-25
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