Research Catalog

Title

Genes in the environment : the 15th Special Symposium of the British Ecological Society held at St. Catherine's College, Oxford, 17-19 September, 2001 / edited by Rosie S. Hails, John E. Beringer, and H. Charles J. Godfray.

Author

British Ecological Society. Special Symposium (15th : 2001 : St. Catherine's College, Oxford)

Publication

Malden, MA : Published for the British Ecological Society by Blackwell Science, 2003.

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Additional Authors

• Hails, Rosemary.
• Beringer, John.
• Godfray, H. C. J., 1958-

Description

xviii, 336 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Special symposia of the British Ecological Society

Uniform Title

Special symposia of the British Ecological Society.

Subject

• Ecological genetics > Congresses
• Population genetics > Congresses
• Molecular genetics > Congresses

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• History of the British Ecological Society -- 1. Estimating rates of gene flow in endemic butterfly races: the effect of metapopulation dynamics / D. E. Taneyhill, J. B. Mallet, I. Wynne, S. Burke, A. S. Pullin, R. J. Wilson, R. K. Butlin, M. J. Hatcher, B. Shorrocks and C. D. Thomas -- 2. Virus transmission and gene flow between two species of the Dutch elm disease fungi, Ophiostoma ulmi and O. novo-ulmi: deleterious viruses as selective agents for gene introgression / K. W. Buck, C. M. Brasier, M. Paoletti and L. J. Crawford -- 3. The population genetic consequences of range expansion: oak gallwasps as a model system / G. N. Stone, R. J. Atkinson, G. Brown, A. Rokas and G. Csoka -- 4. A genetic perspective of Drosophila melanogaster latitudinal body size clines / W. J. Kennington, J. Gockel, D. B. Goldstein and L. Partridge -- 5. Spatial geometry determines gene flow in plant populations / T. R. Meagher and C. Vassiliadis --
• 6. Measuring genetic variation in wild populations: from molecular markers to adaptive traits / G. R. Carvalho, C. van Oosterhout, L. Hauser and A. E. Magurran -- 7. Have recent developments in molecular techniques led to greater insight into evolutionary and ecological processes in plant populations? / A. Smithson and M. R. Macnair -- 8. The role of genomics in methylotrophic bacteria for understanding biogeochemical cycling / L. Chistoserdova and M. E. Lidstrom -- 9. Microbiological basis of land use impact on the soil methane sink: molecular and functional analysis / D. B. Nedwell, J. C. Murrell, P. Ineson, D. S. Reay, S. Radajewski, N. McNamara and S. Morris -- 10. Molecular genetic analysis of the ammonia-oxidizing bacterial community in a defined hypereutrophic freshwater lake / C. B. Whitby, R. A. Meade, G. Hall, J. R. Saunders, R. W. Pickup and A. J. MaCarthy --
• 11. The influence of selection pressures on species diversity, functional gene diversity and activity of ammonia-oxidizing bacteria / J. I. Prosser, T. M. Embley and G. Webster -- 12. Mutualistic interactions amongst viruses? / M. Naylor, H. C. J. Godfray, D. W. Pallett, M. Tristem, J. P. Reeves and J. I. Cooper -- 13. The ecological of turnip mosaic virus in wild population of Brassica species / A. F. Raybould, M. J. Alexander, E. Mitchell, M. I. Thurston, D. W. Pallett, P. Hunter, J. A. Walsh, M.-L. Edwards, A. M. E. Jones, C. L. Moyes, A. J. Gray and J. I. Cooper -- 14. The molecular evolution of host specificity in the rhizobium-legume symbiosis / J. P. W. Young, L. A. Mutch, D. A. Ashford, A. Zeze and K. E. Mutch -- 15. The existence and persistence of genotypic variation in nucleopolyhedrovirus populations / D. J. Hodgson, R. B. Hitchman, A. J. Vanbergen, R. S. Hails, S. E. Hartley, R. D. Possee, A. D. Watt and J. S. Cory --
• 16. Host dynamics and pathogen variation in insect-baculovirus interactions / C. M. Griffiths, R. McVean, R. Benmayor, S. M. Sait, D. J. Thompson, R. D. Possee, J. S. Cory and M. Begon -- 17. The ecological significance of symbiotic microorganisms in animals: perspectives from the microbiota of aphids / A. E. Douglas, A. C. Darby, L. M. Birkle and K. F. A. Walters.

ISBN

• 0632065079 (alk. paper)
• 0632065087 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2002071228

OCLC

• ocm49799209
• SCSB-4343428

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries