Publisher's Synopsis
Genetics and ecology ought to be complementary disciplines at the population level. This conviction underpins this integrative volume, which brings together genetics and ecologists to confront the implications at the others’ discipline for their own work.
The book is divided into three sections; first in ecology’, the influence of population genetics on our view of ecology; then ‘Molecules in ecology’, the use of molecular methods to investigate adaptation and ecological processes; finally ‘Ecology in genetics’, the integration of ecological principles into genetics. Most chapters have two authors; a geneticist and an ecologist each bringing their own insights to the topics considered, and illustrating the importance of one discipline for the other.
The book also includes protocols for relevant molecular and genetical techniques, including DNA purification, polymerase chain reaction, DNA fingerprinting, sequencing, and restriction fragment length polymorphism investigation.
