Genes in Ecology: 33rd Symposium of the British Ecological Society - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0632035048 ISBN 13: 9780632035045

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1993

Synopsis

Logically, genetics and ecology should be complementary disciplines - at least at the population biology level. In reality this is not the case, and the emphasis of genetical and ecological textbooks and courses are often so different that the disciplines in which they are taught can appear to be dealing with different concepts. This book in the "BES Symposium" series aims to dismantle specialist approach and to unify the two disciplines where possible and appropriate. This volume is divided into four sections. Section One discusses the influences of population genetics on our view of ecology. Part Two reviews the use of molecular methods in the investigation of adaptation and ecological processes. The third section discusses the integration of ecological principles with genetics, and the last section includes a brief description of molecular and genetical techniques appropriate and helpful in the work of ecologists.

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Book Description

This integrative volume brings together geneticists and ecologists to confront the implications of the others' discipline for their own work. The book also includes protocols for relevant molecular and genetic techniques, including DNA purification, polymerase chain reaction, DNA fingerprinting, sequencing and restriction fragment length polymorphism investigation.

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Genetics and ecology ought to be complementary disciplines at the population level. This conviction underpins this integrative volume, which brings together genetics and ecologists to confront the implications at the others’ discipline for their own work.

The book is divided into three sections; first in ecology’, the influence of population genetics on our view of ecology; then ‘Molecules in ecology’, the use of molecular methods to investigate adaptation and ecological processes; finally ‘Ecology in genetics’, the integration of ecological principles into genetics. Most chapters have two authors; a geneticist and an ecologist each bringing their own insights to the topics considered, and illustrating the importance of one discipline for the other.

The book also includes protocols for relevant molecular and genetical techniques, including DNA purification, polymerase chain reaction, DNA fingerprinting, sequencing, and restriction fragment length polymorphism investigation.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0632035048
• ISBN 13: 9780632035045
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 534
• Editor: Berry R. J., Crawford T. J., Hewitt G. M.