(NAS Colloquium) Genetics and the Origin of Species:

From Darwin to Molecular Biology 60 Years After Dobzhansky

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Size: 121 pages, 8.5 x 11

Publication Year:1997

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Contents	i-ii	(skim)
Genetics and the origin of species: An introduction	1-7	(skim)
Origin of Genes	8-13	(skim)
Transposable elements as sources of variation in animals and plants	14-21	(skim)
Long term trends in the evolution of H(3) HA1 human influenza type A	22-28	(skim)
Genes, people, and languages	29-34	(skim)
DNA variation at the Sod locus of Drosophila melanogaster: An unfolding story of natural selection	35-39	(skim)
Neutral behavior of shared polymorphism	40-44	(skim)
Divergent and conserved features in the spatial expression of the Drosophila pseudoobscura esterase-5B gene and the esterase-6 gene of Drosophila melanogaster	45-51	(skim)
A demographic approach to selection	52-57	(skim)
Phylogenetics and the origin of species	58-65	(skim)
Assortative fertilization in Drosophilia	66-70	(skim)
Incipient species formation in salamanders of the Ensatina complex	71-77	(skim)
Genetics and the origin of bird species	78-85	(skim)
Vagaries of the molecular clock	86-93	(skim)
Evolution of codon usage bias in Drosophila	94-100	(skim)
The evolution of plant nuclear genes	101-108	(skim)
Evolution by the birth-and-death process in multigene families of the vertebrate immune system	109-116	(skim)

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