Evolutionary Conservation Genetics 1st Edition by Jacob Höglund ISBN 9780191550263 0191550264

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ISBN 10: 0191550264
ISBN 13: 9780191550263
Author: Jacob Höglund
 

Evolutionary Conservation Genetics 1st Edition Table of contents:

1 The extinction vortex, is genetic variation related to extinction?

1.1 Introduction

1.2 The extinction vortex

1.3 Evidence from wild populations of a link between low genetic diversity and extinction

1.4 Experimental studies

1.5 Conclusions

2 How to measure genetic variation

2.1 Codominant neutral variation

2.1.1 Percentage of polymorphic loci

2.1.2 Alleles per locus/allelic richness

2.1.3 Expected heterozygosity

2.1.4 Observed heterozygosity

2.1.5 Inbreeding coefficient

2.1.6 Population differentiation

2.1.7 Gene flow

2.2 Dominant neutral markers

2.3 Sequence variation

2.3.1 Proportion of variable sites

2.3.2 Nucleotide diversity

2.3.3 Haplotype diversity

2.4 Non-neutral markers and neutrality tests

2.5 Quantitative additive genetic variation

2.6 Conclusions

3 Inbreeding, geographic subdivision, and gene flow

3.1 Inbreeding within populations

3.2 Population structure

3.3 Effective population size

3.4 Examples of population structure in endangered species

3.5 Inbreeding depression

3.6 Heterozygosity–fitness correlations

3.7 Rescue effects

3.8 Conclusions

4 Genetic diversity in changing environments

4.1 Fragmentation and natural and human-induced barriers to gene flow

4.2 Landscape genetics

4.3 Effects of bottlenecks and how to detect them

4.4 Effects of population expansions and range shifts

4.5 Invasive species

4.6 Summary

5 Genes under selection: Mhc and others

5.1 Mhc genes

5.1.1 Mhc and conservation in mammals

5.1.2 Mhc and conservation in birds

5.1.3 Mhc and conservation in reptiles and amphibians

5.1.4 Mhc and conservation in fish

5.1.5 Summary: Mhc and immunogenetics in conservation

5.2 Other candidate genes relevant for conservation

5.2.1 Pigmentation genes: mc1r

5.2.2 Photoperiodism: Clock and other genes

5.3 Conclusions

6 Local adaptation

6.1 Evidence of local adaptation

6.2 Differentiation in quantitative traits, Q[sub(ST)]

6.3 Comparisons of F[sub(ST)] and Q[sub(ST)]

6.4 Q[sub(ST)] applied to conservation studies

6.5 Conclusions

7 Ecological genomics

7.1 WGS

7.2 What to do with the data? Assembly and annotation

7.3 What to do with the data? Evolutionary and ecological analyses

7.4 Genomics in conservation

7.4.1 SNP detection and genotyping

7.4.2 QTL mapping of functionally important loci

7.4.3 Differential gene expression

7.4.4 Phylogenetics

7.5 Genomic studies of non-model species

7.6 Conclusions

8 An evolutionary conservation biology

8.1 Human impact on evolutionary processes

8.2 Evolutionary responses of harvesting

8.3 Conserving evolutionary potential

8.4 Conservation units

8.5 Concluding remarks

References

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