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Title

Genetic structure and local adaptation in natural insect populations : effects of ecology, life history, and behavior / [compiled by] Susan Mopper and Sharon Y. Strauss.

Publication

New York : Chapman & Hall, 1998.

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Additional Authors

• Mopper, Susan.
• Strauss, Sharon Y.

Description

xix, 449 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

• 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.

Subjects

• Phytophagous insects > Adaptation
• Phytophagous insects > Genetics
• Insect populations

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Pt. I. Local Adaptation: Empirical Evidence from Case Studies. 1. Population Structure and the Conundrum of Local Adaptation / Don Alstad. 2. Deme Formation in a Dispersive Gall-Forming Midge / Peter Stiling and Anthony M. Rossi. 3. Prevention of Deme Formation by the Pinyon Needle Scale: Problems of Specializing in a Dynamic System / Neil S. Cobb and Thomas G. Whitham. 4. Local Adaptation in Specialist Herbivores: Theory and Evidence / William J. Boecklen and Susan Mopper -- Pt. II. Foundations of Local Adaptation: The Genetic Basis of Host-Plant Use and the Nature of Selection. 5. Population-Level Adaptation to Host-Plant Chemicals: The Role of Cytochrome P450 Monooxygenases / May R. Berenbaum and Arthur R. Zangerl. 6. Assessment of Genetic Variation in the Presence of Maternal or Paternal Effects in Herbivorous Insects / MaryCarol Rossiter. 7. Local Adaptation and Stochastic Events in an Oak Leafminer Population / Susan Mopper.
• 8. The Strength of Selection: Intraspecific Variation in Host-Plant Quality and the Fitness of Herbivores / Sharon Y. Strauss and Richard Karban -- Pt. III. Life History, Behavior, and Genetic Structure. 9. Intrademic Genetic Structure and Natural Selection in Insects / David E. McCauley and Peter W. Goff. 10. Social Behavior and Its Effects on Colony- and Microgeographic Genetic Structure in Phytophagous Insect Populations / James T. Costa. 11. Dispersal and Adaptive Deme Formation in Sedentary Coccoid Insects / Lawrence M. Hanks and Robert F. Denno. 12. Life-History Strategies and the Genetic Structure of Phytophagous Insect Populations / Merrill A. Peterson and Robert F. Denno -- Pt. IV. Local Adaptation, Host-Race Formation, and Speciation. 13. Differential Adaptation in Spatially Heterogeneous Environments and Host-Parasite Coevolution / Sylvain Gandon, Dieter Ebert and Isabelle Olivieri [et al.].
• 14. Scale-Dependent Evolution of Specialization in a Checkerspot Butterfly: From Individuals to Metapopulations and Ecotypes / Chris D. Thomas and Michael C. Singer. 15. Factors Affecting Gene Flow between the Host Races of Eurosta solidaginis / Joanne K. Itami, Timothy P. Craig and John D. Horner. 16. Sympatric Host-Race Formation and Speciation in Rhagoletis (Diptera: Tephritidae): A Tale of Two Species for Charles D. / Jeffrey L. Feder, Stewart H. Berlocher and Susan B. Opp.

ISBN

0412080311 (alk. paper)

LCCN

97007322

OCLC

• 36520973
• ocm36520973

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries