Molecular Ecology and Evolution: Approaches and Applications

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• I: DNA fingerprinting and behavioral ecology.
• Arbitrary primer mediated fingerprinting in plants: Case studies in plant breeding, taxonomy and phylogeny.
• DNA amplification fingerprinting: A general tool with applications in breeding, identification and phylogenetic analysis of plants.
• The analysis of simple repeat loci as applied in evolutionary and behavioral sciences.
• Multilocus DNA fingerprinting and genetic relatedness in plants: A case study with banana and tomato.
• Measuring reproductive success in insects.
• Unravelling the components that underlie insect reproductive traits using a simple molecular approach.
• Molecular analysis of kinship in birds: Interesting questions and useful techniques.
• II: Population biology.
• Molecular techniques in population genetics: A brief history.
• Organization of genetic variation at the molecular level: Lessons from Drosophila.
• The use of microsatellite analysis in population biology: Background, methods and potential applications.
• The use of microsatellites for genetic analysis of natural populations.
• PCR assays of variable nucleotide sites for identification of conservation units.
• Concerted evolution and RAPping in mitochondrial VNTRs and the molecular geography of cricket populations.
• Molecular markers and evolutionary processes in hermaphrodite freshwater snails.
• Extinction and the formation of phylogenetic lineages: Diagnosing units of conservation management in the tiger beetle Cicindela dorsalis.
• Perspective on conservation genetics.
• III: Molecular systematics.
• Advances in the theory and practice of DNA-hybridization as a systematic method.
• Allozymes in mammalian population genetics and systematics: Indicative function of a marker system reconsidered.
• Analysis of DNA from natural history museum collections.
• Sources of ambiguity in nucleic acid sequence alignment.
• Computational problems in molecular systematics.
• The comparison of morphological and molecular data in phylogenetic systematics.
• Non-coding chloroplast DNA for plant molecular systematics at the infrageneric level.
• Developing model systems for molecular biogeography: Vicariance and interchange in marine invertebrates.
• Bridging phylogenetics and population genetics with gene tree models.
• IV: Speciation, development and genome organization.
• The role of molecular genetics in speciation studies.
• The origin and evolution of species differences in Escherichia coli and Salmonella typhimurium.
• The evolutionary ecology of Daphnia.
• Diversity within diversity: Molecular approaches to studying microbial interactions with insects.
• Evolutionary analysis of genes involved in early embryonic pattern formation in Drosophila.
• Developmental genes and the origin and evolution of Metazoa.
• To what extent does genetic information determine structural characteristics and document homologies?.
• Evolution and multi-functionality of the chitin system.
• Genome evolution: Between the nucleosome and the chromosome.
• Individual genes underlying quantitative traits: Molecular and analytical methods.
• Perspectives on future applications of experimental biology to evolution.