Book ID: 94606
Christiansen, Freddy Bugge
Theories of Population Variation in Genes and Genomes. 2008. 100 col. illustr. 100 line drawings. 46 tabs. 432 p. gr8vo. Cloth.
Provides an authoritative introduction to both classical and coalescentapproaches to population genetics. Focuses on the theoretical backgroundof population genetics, while emphasizing the close interplay between theory and empiricism. Traditional topics such as genetic and phenotypicvariation, mutation, migration, and linkage are covered and advanced bycontemporary coalescent theory, which describes the genealogy of genesin a population, ultimately connecting them to a single common ancestor.Effects of selection, particularly genomic effects, are discussed with reference to molecular genetic variation.