Population Genetics

Matthew B. Hamilton

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN: 9781118436943
• eBook ISBN: 9781118436929
• Edition: 2
• Topic: Sciences biologiques
• Subtopic: Génétique et génomique

Now updated for its second edition, Population Genetics is the classic, accessible introduction to the concepts of population genetics. Combining traditional conceptual approaches with classical hypotheses and debates, the book equips students to understand a wide array of empirical studies that are based on the first principles of population genetics. 

 

Featuring a highly accessible introduction to coalescent theory, as well as covering the major conceptual advances in population genetics of the last two decades, the second edition now also includes end of chapter problem sets and revised coverage of recombination in the coalescent model, metapopulation extinction and recolonization, and the fixation index.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Preface and acknowledgements
• About the companion websites
• Chapter 1 Thinking like a population geneticist
• Chapter 2 Genotype frequencies
• Chapter 3 Genetic drift and effective population size
• Chapter 4 Population structure and gene flow
• Chapter 5 Mutation
• Chapter 6 Fundamentals of natural selection
• Chapter 7 Further models of natural selection
• Chapter 8 Molecular evolution
• Chapter 9 Quantitative trait variation and evolution
• Chapter 10 The Mendelian basis of quantitative trait variation
• Appendix
• Bibliography
• Index