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Mutation and Evolution

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    Chapter 1 Some evolutionary consequences of deleterious mutations
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    Chapter 2 Risk of population extinction from fixation of deleterious and reverse mutations
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    Chapter 3 Deleterious mutation accumulation in organelle genomes
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    Chapter 4 Mutation-selection balance with multiple alleles
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    Chapter 5 Mutation pressure, natural selection, and the evolution of base composition in Drosophila
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    Chapter 6 Deleterious mutations in animal mitochondrial DNA
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    Chapter 7 Requisite mutational load, pathway epistasis, and deterministic mutation accumulation in sexual versus asexual populations
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    Chapter 8 Evolution by nearly-neutral mutations
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    Chapter 9 Compensatory neutral mutations and the evolution of RNA
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    Chapter 10 The amount and pattern of DNA polymorphism under the neutral mutation hypothesis
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    Chapter 11 Adaptive mutagenesis: a process that generates almost exclusively beneficial mutations
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    Chapter 12 The fate of competing beneficial mutations in an asexual population
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    Chapter 13 An embarrassment of riches: the stochastic generation of beneficial mutations
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    Chapter 14 Selection, convergence, and intragenic recombination in HLA diversity
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    Chapter 15 Mutation and conflicts between artificial and natural selection for quantitative traits
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    Chapter 16 Measuring spontaneous deleterious mutation process
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    Chapter 17 Polygenic mutation in Drosophila melanogaster : genotype × environment interaction for spontaneous mutations affecting bristle number
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    Chapter 18 Environment-influenced expression of polygene mutations isolated from a natural population of Drosophila melanogaster
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    Chapter 19 Inferences on genome-wide deleterious mutation rates in inbred populations of Drosophila and mice
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    Chapter 20 How should we explain variation in the genetic variance of traits?
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    Chapter 21 The mutation rate and the distribution of mutational effects of viability and fitness in Drosophila melanogaster
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    Chapter 22 Evolution of intermediate selfing rates in plants: pollination ecology versus deleterious mutations
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    Chapter 23 Mathematical properties of mutation-selection models
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    Chapter 24 Mutation and senescence: where genetics and demography meet
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    Chapter 25 Spontaneous mutation for life-history traits in Drosophila melanogaster
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    Chapter 26 Mutation rates in mangroves and other plants
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    Chapter 27 Asymmetrical DNA replication promotes evolution: disparity theory of evolution
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    Chapter 28 Distribution of fitness effects caused by random insertion mutations in Escherichia coli
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    Chapter 29 Mutation and evolution of microsatellites in Drosophila melanogaster
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    Chapter 30 The molecular clock revisited: the rate of synonymous vs. replacement change in Drosophila
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    Chapter 31 Directional mutational pressure affects the amino acid composition and hydrophobicity of proteins in bacteria
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    Chapter 32 Mutation and selection at silent and replacement sites in the evolution of animal mitochondrial DNA
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    Chapter 33 Enigma of Y chromosome degeneration: Neo-Y and Neo-X chromosomes of Drosophila miranda a model for sex chromosome evolution
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    Chapter 34 The developmental basis for germline mosaicism in mouse and Drosophila melanogaster
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    Chapter 35 Major impacts of gonadal mosaicism on hereditary risk estimation, origin of hereditary diseases, and evolution
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    Chapter 36 Discovery of numerous clusters of spontaneous mutations in the specific-locus test in mice necessitates major increases in estimates of doubling doses
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    Chapter 37 Clusters of new identical mutants and the fate of underdominant mutations
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    Chapter 38 Mutation and selection within the individual
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    Chapter 39 Towards a theory of evolutionary adaptation
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    Chapter 40 A pleiotropic model of phenotypic evolution
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    Chapter 41 Population differentiation through mutation and drift — a comparison of genetic identity measures
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    Chapter 42 Inferring the major genomic mode of dominance and overdominance
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    Chapter 43 Genetic measurement theory of epistatic effects
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Title
Mutation and Evolution
Published by
Springer Netherlands, December 2012
DOI 10.1007/978-94-011-5210-5
ISBNs
978-9-40-106193-3, 978-9-40-115210-5
Editors

Woodruff, Ronny C., Thompson, James N.

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 3 60%
Student > Postgraduate 1 20%
Student > Master 1 20%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 4 80%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1 20%