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Tables of Contents for Molecular Approaches To Ecology And Evolution
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of contributors
ix
Preface
xiii
Part 1. Population biology, kinship and fingerprinting
1
124
The use of molecular markers to study kinship in birds: techniques and questions
7
30
Michael S. Webster
David F. Westneat
A role for molecular biology in testing ideas about cryptic female choice
37
18
Michael T. Siva-Jothy
Heike Hadrys
Molecular measures of insect fitness
55
16
Michelle Pellissier Scott
Scott M. Williams
The use of microsatellites for genetic analysis of natural populations--a critical review
71
16
Christian Schlotterer
Josephine Pemberton
Caution before claim: an overview of microsatellite analysis in ecology and evolutionary biology
87
20
Howard C. Rosenbaum
Amos S. Deinard
Arbitrary oligonucleotides: primers for amplification and direct identification of nucleic acids, genes and organisms
107
18
G. Caetano-Anolles
Part 2. Species
125
112
The role of molecular genetics in speciation studies
131
26
Alan R. Templeton
Testing speciation models with DNA sequence data
157
20
John Wakeley
Jody Hey
PCR assays of variable nucleotide sites for identification of conservation units: an example from Caiman
177
14
George Amato
John Gatesy
Peter Brazaitis
Extinction and the evolutionary process in endangered species: What to conserve?
191
20
Alfried P. Vogler
Quantitative trait loci: a new approach to old evolutionary problems
211
10
Eric Routman
James M. Cheverud
Seeking the genetic basis of phenotypic differences among bacterial species
221
16
Howard Ochman
Eduardo A. Groisman
Part 3. Higher taxa and systematics
237
122
Alignment characters, dynamic programming and heuristic solutions
243
10
Ward Wheeler
Pitfalls in phylogenetic analysis of large molecular data sets
253
22
Paul Z. Goldstein
Chelsea D. Specht
The comparison of morphological and molecular data in phylogenetic systematics
275
22
Allan Larson
Beyond area relationships: Extinction and recolonization in molecular marine biogeography
297
26
Clifford W. Cunningham
Timothy M. Collins
The history of development through the evolution of molecules: gene trees, hearts, eyes and dorsoventral inversion
323
36
David K. Jacobs
Shannon E. Lee
M. N. Dawson
Joseph L. Staton
Kevin A. Raskoff
Subject index
359