Invasion Genetics: The Baker and Stebbins Legacy

By Katrina M Dlugosch, Loren H Rieseberg, Robert I Colautti

Invasion Genetics: the Baker & Stebbins legacy provides a state-of-the-art treatment of the evolutionary biology of invasive species, whilst also revisiting the historical legacy of one of the most important books in evolutionary biology: The Genetics of Colonizing Species , published in 1965 and edited by Herbert Baker and G. Ledyard Stebbins. This volume covers a range of topics concerned with the evolutionary biology of invasion including: phylogeography and the reconstruction of invasion history; demographic genetics; the role of stochastic forces in the invasion process; the contemporary evolution of local adaptation; the significance of epigenetics and transgenerational plasticity for invasive species; the genomic consequences of colonization; the search for invasion genes; and the comparative biology of invasive species. A wide diversity of invasive organisms are discussed including plants, animals, fungi and microbes.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1118922166
• ISBN13: 9781118922163
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 2.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.5" x 9.8"