Molecular Evolution and Adaptive Radiation

Description: Molecular Evolution and Adaptive Radiation. EDITORS:Thomas J. Givnish, University of Wisconsin, MadisonKenneth J. Sytsma, University of Wisconsin, MadisonThomas J. Givnish, Kenneth J. Sytsma, Bruce G. Baldwin, Mark S. Springer, John A. W. Kirsch, Judd A. Chase, John K. Colbourne, Paul D. N. Hebert, Derek J. Taylor, Inés Horovitz, Axel Meye, Spencer C. H. Barrett, Sean W. Graham, Thomas J. Givnish, Kenneth J. Sytsma, James F. Smith, William J. Hahn, David H. Benzing, Elizabeth M. Burkhardt, François-Joseph Lapointe, Mark W. Chase, Jeffrey D. Palmer, Alfried P. Vogler, Peter N. Reinthal, Axel Mey, Javier Francisco-Ortega, Daniel J. Crawford, Arnoldo Santos-Guerra, Robert K. Jansen, Jeffrey R. Hapeman, Kenneth Inoue, Ann K. Sakai, Stephen G. Weller, Warren L. Wagner, Pamela S. Soltis, Michael P. Kambysellis, Elysse M. Craddock, Eric B. Taylor, James D. McPhail, Dalph Schluter, Todd Jackman, Jonathan B. Losos, Allan Larson, Kevin de Queiros, Andrew B. Smith, D. T. J. Littlewood, Amy R. McCune DATE PUBLISHED: August 1997AVAILABILITY: Out of print September 2019FORMAT: HardbackISBN: 9780521573290 Molecular Evolution and Adaptive Radiation surveys recent advances in the study of adaptive radiation by bringing together a set of international experts investigating a wide range of organisms in a variety of geographic settings. Givnish and Sytsma show how family trees derived from molecular characters can be used to analyze the origin and pattern of ecological and morphological diversification within a lineage in a noncircular fashion. They synthesize the recent explosion of research in this area, involving organisms as diverse as epiphytic and terrestrial orchids, water hyacinths, African cichlids, New World monkeys, tropical fruit bats, carnivorous bromeliads, Hawaiian silverswords and fruit flies, North American Daphnia, Caribbean anoles, Canadian sticklebacks, and Australian marsupials. This volume will be of interest to graduate students and professional scientists in ecology, evolutionary biology, systematics, and biogeography. -An international group of scientists discuss adaptive radiation -The authors discuss the use of molecular systematics (comparative molecular genetics) to give a more objective account of how groups of organisms are related -Allows several key questions at the interface of ecology, evolutionary biology, systematics, and biogeography to be addressed satisfactorily for the first time

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