Genetic Constraints on Adaptive Evolution

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-IX

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2. Introduction: Genetic Constraints on Adaptive Evolution and the Evolution of Genetic Constraints

   • V. Loeschcke

   Pages 1-2

3. A Quantitative Genetic Perspective on Adaptive Evolution

   • J. S. F. Barker, R. H. Thomas

   Pages 3-23

4. Genetic Correlations: The Quantitative Genetics of Evolutionary Constraints

   • A. G. Clark

   Pages 25-45

5. Genetic Constraints on the Evolution of Phenotypic Plasticity

   • S. Via

   Pages 47-71

6. Reflections on the Genetics of Quantitative Traits with Continuous Environmental Variation

   • A. J. van Noordwijk, M. Gebhardt

   Pages 73-90

7. Three Approaches to Trade-Offs in Life-History Evolution

   • M. R. Rose, P. M. Service, E. W. Hutchinson

   Pages 91-105

8. Pleiotropy in Dynamical Parameters of Models on the Evolution of Simple Phenotypes

   • F. B. Christiansen

   Pages 107-124

9. Constraints in Selection Response

   • W. Scharloo

   Pages 125-149

10. Nonrandom Patterns of Mutation are Reflected in Evolutionary Divergence and May Cause Some of the Unusual Patterns Observed in Sequences

    • G. B. Golding

    Pages 151-172

11. Genetic Constraints on Plant Adaptive Evolution

    • B. A. Schaal, W. J. Leverich

    Pages 173-184

12. Back Matter

    Pages 185-188

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Genetic constraints on adaptive evolution can be understood as those genetic aspects that prevent or reduce the potential for natural selection to result in the most direct ascent of the mean phenotype to an optimum. The contributions to this volume emphasize how genetic aspects in the transmission of traits constrain adaptive evolution. Approaches span from quantitative, population, ecological to molecular genetics. Much attention is devoted to genetic correlations, to the maintenance of quantitative genetic variation, and to the intimate relation between genetics, ecology, and evolution. This volume addresses all evolutionary biologists and explains why they should be wary of evolutionary concepts that base arguments purely on phenotypic characteristics.

• ecology
• evolution
• genetics
• molecular genetics
• mutation
• phenotype
• plant

• Institute of Ecology and Genetics, University of Aarhus, Aarhus C, Denmark

  Volker Loeschcke

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