Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology
XX: Population Genetics: The Nature and Causes of Genetic Variability in Populations
1955
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1955




Dr. A. Gustafsson, Dr. K. Maramorosch



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Population Genetics: The Nature and Causes of Genetic Variability in Populations

Symposium Volume XX Contents

FOREWORD    v



LIST OF PARTICIPANTS    ix



DOBZHANSKY, THEODOSIUS. A review of some fundamental concepts and problems of population genetics    1

GENERAL POPULATION GENETICS THEORY

WRIGHT, SEWALL. Classification of the factors of evolution    16

DEMPSTER, EVERETT R. Maintenance of genetic heterogeneity    25

KIMURA, MOTOO. Stochastic processes and distribution of gene frequencies under natural selection    33

CROW, JAMES F. General theory of population genetics: Synthesis    54



THEORY OF QUANTITATIVE GENETICS

KEMPTHORNE, OSCAR. The correlation between relatives in random mating populations    60

HAYMAN, B. I. The description and analysis of gene action and interaction    79

SPRAGUE, G. F. Problems in the estimation and utilization of genetic variability    87

COMSTOCK, R. E. Theory of quantitative genetics: Synthesis    93

SELECTION IN PLANTS

MANNING, H. L. Response to selection for yield in cotton    103

HASKELL, GORDON. Analyses of sexual-apomictic blackberry populations and their ecological consequences    111

ROBINSON, H. F., and COMSTOCK, R. E. Analysis of genetic variability in corn with reference to probable effects of selection    127

SAKAI, KAN-ICHI. Competition in plants and its relation to selection    137

MATHER, KENNETH. Response to selection: Synthesis    158



SELECTION IN ANIMALS

ROBERTSON, FORBES W. Selection response and the properties of genetic variation    166

FALCONER, D. S. Patterns of response in selection experiments with mice    178

BELL, A. E., MOORE, C. H., and WARREN, D. C. The evaluation of new methods for the improvement of quantitative characteristics    197

DICKERSON, G. E. Genetic slippage in response to selection for multiple objectives    213

ROBERTSON, ALAN. Selection in animals: Synthesis    225



GENETIC VARIABILITY AND POLYMORPHISM

FORD, E. B. Rapid evolution and the conditions which make it possible    230

ALLISON, A. C. Aspects of polymorphism in man    239

STONE, WILSON S. Genetic and chromosomal variability in Drosophila    256

SHEPPARD, P. M. Genetic variability and polymorphism: Synthesis    271



POPULATIONS IN TIME AND SPACE

CARSON, HAMPTON L. The genetic characteristics of marginal populations. of Drosophila    276

NICHOLSON, A. J. Density governed reaction, the counterpart of selection in evolution    288

PREVOSTI, NTONIO. Geographical variability in quantitative traits in populations of Drosophila subobscura    294

BUZZATI-TRAVERSO, ADRIANO A. Populations in time and space Synthesis    300



INTEGRATION OF GENOTYPES

WALLACE, BRUCE, and VETUKHIV, M. Adaptive organization of the gene pools of Drosophila populations    303

KING, JAMES C. Evidence for the integration of the gene pool from studies of DDT resistance in Drosophila    311

THODAY, J. M. Balance, heterozygosity and developmental stability    318



CONCLUSION

LERNER, I. MICHAEL. Concluding survey    334








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