Evolutionary Biology

370 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

After volume 33, this book series was replaced by the journal "Evolutionary Biology." Please visit www.springer.com/11692 for further information. Volume 30 brings readers up to date on the investigation of eminent evolutionary biologists and paleobiologists. Contributions explore such topics as - Adaptation in Drosophila and the role of cytochrome P450s - Population genetics and species conservation of the cheetah - germ-layer theory - assymetry in the mammalian skeleton - genetic diversity of marine fish - the phenomenon of industrial melanism - the variation in lizard cranal kinesis.Other chapters focus on such issues as overdominance and its relation to higher mutation-rate estimates and the use of molecular clocks in determining the rate of nucleotide substitution in higher plants.

• Themen: Mathematik und Naturwissenschaften Biologie, Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, allgemein Evolution / Evolutionsbiologie
• ISBN: 9780306456749
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 30.04.1998
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Springer Us
• Herausgegeben von: Ross J Macintyre, Max K Hecht, Michael T Clegg