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Population Growth And Fitness In Drosophila
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Book Synopsis Population Growth and Fitness in Drosophila by : Juan Manuel Serradilla-Manrique
Download or read book Population Growth and Fitness in Drosophila written by Juan Manuel Serradilla-Manrique and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Fitness and Density-dependence in Drosophila Melanogaster by : Laurence Dochez Mueller
Download or read book Fitness and Density-dependence in Drosophila Melanogaster written by Laurence Dochez Mueller and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Battle Between the Species by : Ellen Marie Wijsman
Download or read book Battle Between the Species written by Ellen Marie Wijsman and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Fitness of Experimental Populations of Drosophila Melanogaster by : Wilke van Delden
Download or read book Fitness of Experimental Populations of Drosophila Melanogaster written by Wilke van Delden and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Estimation of Relative Fitness of Drosophila Populations and Related Studies in Population Genetics by : James Stuart Flinton Barker
Download or read book The Estimation of Relative Fitness of Drosophila Populations and Related Studies in Population Genetics written by James Stuart Flinton Barker and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Evolution of Fitness in Experimental Populations of Drosophila Pseudoobscura by : Monroe Strickberger
Download or read book Evolution of Fitness in Experimental Populations of Drosophila Pseudoobscura written by Monroe Strickberger and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Long Term Fitness of Hybridized Populations of Drosophila by : Kriska F. I. G. Parda (Graduate student)
Download or read book Long Term Fitness of Hybridized Populations of Drosophila written by Kriska F. I. G. Parda (Graduate student) and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: In the practice of resource management conservation, it is common to introduce new members into small inbred populations in order to increase genetic diversity and reduce the negative effects of inbreeding. Although fitness often increases in the F1 generation immediately following intrapopulation hybridization, few studies have focused on the long-term fitness of such populations. The model organisms Drosophila melanogaster and D. simulans were used to investigate if heterosis, an increase in the fitness in the hybrid population, or outbreeding depression, a decline in the fitness in the hybrid population, occurs over an eight generation period. At each generation, a series of fitness related assays were performed to assess relative fitness. Results of this study were mixed. At best, only some hybridized populations showed slightly higher, but often nonsignificant increases in fitness, never in more than one assay. The lack of consistent strong persistent heterosis suggests that conservation efforts such as habitat preservation maybe be a better use of effort and money for assisting endangered species.
Download or read book Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics written by and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2014-08-12 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The theme of this volume is to discuss Eco-evolutionary Dynamics. - Updates and informs the reader on the latest research findings - Written by leading experts in the field - Highlights areas for future investigation
Book Synopsis Population Biology by : Philip W. Hedrick
Download or read book Population Biology written by Philip W. Hedrick and published by Jones & Bartlett Publishers. This book was released on 1984 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Population Growth of Drosophila Melanogaster ( Diptera: Drosophilidae) at Constant and Alternating Temperatures by : W. H. Siddiqui
Download or read book Population Growth of Drosophila Melanogaster ( Diptera: Drosophilidae) at Constant and Alternating Temperatures written by W. H. Siddiqui and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Conservation Genetics by : V. Loeschcke
Download or read book Conservation Genetics written by V. Loeschcke and published by Birkhäuser. This book was released on 2013-03-11 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It follows naturally from the widely accepted Darwinian dictum that failures of populations or of species to adapt and to evolve under changing environments will result in their extinction. Population geneti cists have proclaimed a centerstage role in developing conservation biology theory and applications. However, we must critically reexamine what we know and how we can make rational contributions. We ask: Is genetic variation really important for the persistence of species? Has any species become extinct because it ran out of genetic variation or because of inbreeding depression? Are demographic and environmental stochas ticity by far more important for the fate of a population or species than genetic stochasticity (genetic drift and inbreeding)? Is there more to genetics than being a tool for assessing reproductive units and migration rates? Does conventional wisdom on inbreeding and "magic numbers" or rules of thumb on critical effective population sizes (MVP estimators) reflect any useful guidelines in conservation biology? What messages or guidelines from genetics can we reliably provide to those that work with conservation in practice? Is empirical work on numerous threatened habitats and taxa gathering population genetic information that we can use to test these guidelines? These and other questions were raised in the invitation to a symposium on conservation genetics held in May 1993 in pleasant surroundings at an old manor house in southern Jutland, Denmark.
Book Synopsis Methuselah Flies by : Michael Robertson Rose
Download or read book Methuselah Flies written by Michael Robertson Rose and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2004 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Methuselah Flies presents a trailblazing project on the biology of aging. It describes research on the first organisms to have their lifespan increased, and their aging slowed, by hereditary manipulation. These organisms are fruit flies from the species Drosophila melanogaster, the great workhorse of genetics. Michael Rose and his colleagues have been able to double the lifespan of these insects, and improved their health in numerous respects as well. The study of these flies with postponed aging is one of the best means we have of understanding, and ultimately achieving, the postponement of aging in humans. As such, the carefully presented detail of this book will be of value to research devoted to the understanding and control of aging.Methuselah Flies: ? is a tightly edited distillation of twenty years of work by many scientists? contains the original publications regarding the longer-lived fruit flies? offers commentaries on each of the topics covered ? new, short essays that put the individual research papers in a wider context? gives full access to the original data ? captures the scientific significance of postponed aging for a wide academic audienc
Book Synopsis Evolutionary Biology by : Max K. Hecht
Download or read book Evolutionary Biology written by Max K. Hecht and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first volume of Evolutionary Biology was published thirteen years ago. Since that time thirteen volumes and one supplement have appeared. As stated in earlier prefaces, we are continuing the focus of this series on critical reviews, commentaries, original papers, and controversies in evolu tionary biology. It is our aim to publish papers primarily of greater length than normally published by society journals and quarterlies. We therefore invite colleagues to submit chapters that fall within the focus and standards of Evolutionary Biology. The editors regretfully announce that Dr. William C. Steere has decided to withdraw from the editorial board of Evolutionary Biology. Dr. Ghillean T. Prance will replace Dr. Steere for forthcoming volumes. Manuscripts should be sent to anyone of the following: Max K. Hecht, Department of Biology, Queens College of the City University of New York, Flushing, New York 11367; Bruce Wallace, Department of Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14850; Ghillean T. Prance, New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, New York 10458. The Editors vii Contents 1. Some Relationships between Density-Independent Selection and Density-Dependent Population Growth Timothy Prout Introduction ............................................ . Part I. The Basic Model: Definitions, Assumptions, and Relationships .................................... 3 Part II. Biological Aspects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 . . . . . . . . . Introduction ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 . . . . . . . . . . . The Biological Interpretation of the Model. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 . . . . Experimental and Observational Aspects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 . . . . Part III. Census-Stage Theory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 . . . . . . . . Introduction ...... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 . . . . . . . . . . . Two-Point Census ...................................... 23 Three-Point Census: Classical Selection .. . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . 42 . . . Summary of Two-and Three-Point Censuses. . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 . . . Part IV. Summary and Some Implications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 . . . . Summary.............................................. 52 Some Implications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 . . . . . . . . . . Appendix. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . References. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Book Synopsis Mathematical and Empirical Aspects of Density-dependent Population Growth in Drosophila by : Diego Jose Rodriguez
Download or read book Mathematical and Empirical Aspects of Density-dependent Population Growth in Drosophila written by Diego Jose Rodriguez and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis And Replenish the Earth by : Michael L. Rosenzweig
Download or read book And Replenish the Earth written by Michael L. Rosenzweig and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Advances in Genetics, Development, and Evolution of Drosophila by : Seppo Lakovaara
Download or read book Advances in Genetics, Development, and Evolution of Drosophila written by Seppo Lakovaara and published by Springer. This book was released on 1982-07 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1906 Castle, Carpenter, Clarke, Mast, and Barrows published a paper entitled "The effects of inbreeding, cross-breeding, and selection upon the fertility and variability of Drosophila." This article, 55 pages long and published in the Proceedings of the Amer ican Academy, described experiments performed with Drosophila ampe lophila Lov, "a small dipterous insect known under various popular names such as the little fruit fly, pomace fly, vinegar fly, wine fly, and pickled fruit fly." This study, which was begun in 1901 and published in 1906, was the first published experimental study using Drosophila, subsequently known as Drosophila melanogaster Meigen. Of course, Drosophila was known before the experiments of Cas tles's group. The small flies swarming around grapes and wine pots have surely been known as long as wine has been produced. The honor of what was the first known misclassification of the fruit flies goes to Fabricius who named them Musca funebris in 1787. It was the Swedish dipterist, C.F. Fallen, who in 1823 changed the name of ~ funebris to Drosophila funebris which was heralding the beginning of the genus Drosophila. Present-day Drosophila research was started just 80 years ago and first published only 75 years ago. Even though the history of Drosophila research is short, the impact and volume of study on Drosophila has been tremendous during the last decades.
Book Synopsis Social Gene-environment Correlation by : Julia B. Saltz
Download or read book Social Gene-environment Correlation written by Julia B. Saltz and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What makes individuals unique? Both humans and animals show consistent individual differences in behavior that persist across time and across situations. Such differences between individuals within a population, now documented in large array of species, raise two fundamental questions. 1) Why would individuals from the same species, reared in the same population, be different? And, 2) what forces maintain variation in behavior? I.e., why doesn't the "best" behavioral strategy take over? Individual differences may be due to differences in genetic factors, environmental effects, and the complex interplay between these. One approach to interpreting these factors is to analyze the ways in which an individual's genotype influences his social experience. This process, termed 'social gene-environment correlation' (social rGE), can occur whenever genotypes differ in key behaviors--such as conspecific attraction--that determine social experience. Because the social environment can affect both the development of behavior and selection on behavior, social rGE represents a potentially powerful explanation for the development and evolutionary maintenance of individual differences in social behaviors. For my dissertation, I developed the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster as a system to study individual differences in social behavior. D. melanogaster is ideal because genetic tools allow many "replicates" of natural genotypes--equivalent to identical twins--to be reared under controlled conditions. This simple technique represents an exceptionally powerful tool to dissect the genetic and social environmental causes of individual differences. Using this approach, I was able to directly examine the behavioral causes and fitness consequences of social rGE. I discovered two mechanisms of social rGE. First, I found that natural male genotypes of D. melanogaster differ in social preference behavior (Chapter 1). Male genotypes differ in the amount of time they prefer to spend aggregating with other flies; and they differ in group-size preferences. Because these social preferences directly affect males' opportunity for social experience, genetic variation in social preferences represents a straightforward mechanism of social rGE. Second, I discovered that more aggressive male genotypes experience smaller group sizes (Chapter 2). This correlation between genetically-influenced behavior and the social environment is the hallmark of social rGE. These studies demonstrate that social rGE is pervasive in D. melanogaster. Social rGE may be rampant; but does it matter? I found two means by which social rGE can influence the outcomes of selection. In Chapter 2, both aggressive and non-aggressive genotypes could achieve high mating success (a key fitness proxy), by "using" social rGE to generate the environment in which they were most adept at mating. The relationship between aggressiveness (the mechanism of social rGE) and mating ability shows a pattern characteristic of disruptive correlational selection, which adaptively maintains genetic variation. In other words, social rGE may allow alternate behavioral strategies to enjoy high fitness. Second, in Chapter 3 I examined how groups with different genotypic compositions influence the survival of D. melanogaster larvae. The genotypic compositions I chose represent different choices that female flies must make before ovipositing; these maternal decisions are critical to the social environment of their offspring. I found that more genetically diverse groups--such as those formed by females who prefer share breeding substrates with unrelated females--exert stronger selection against a lower-quality laboratory genotype. Taken together, these results demonstrate that social rGE can have important evolutionary consequences. My dissertation work shows that social rGE is common and has important impacts on fitness in D. melanogaster. This work has implications for humans, in which social rGE has been widely hypothesized but never directly examined; and for other social animals, in which social rGE is rarely considered.