Evolutionary Biology

副标题: Volume 23 (Evolutionary Biology)

ISBN: 9780306429774

出版社: Springer

出版年: 1988-10-31

页数: 420

定价: USD 166.00

装帧: Hardcover

内容简介

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.