1st Edition
Genetic Diversity in Establishing Plant Populations Founder Number and Geometry
This book comprising 13 chapters, is the second of the four books planned for a series on Progress in Mycological Research. The chapters provide an overview of the progress and shifts that have taken place towards the understanding of the Systematics and Evolution of Fungi with the availability of modern tools and techniques. Most major groups of fungi such as the Chytridiomycota, Zygomycota, Ascomycota, and Basidiomycota have been attempted to be covered. Advances in morphological and molecular taxonomy of highly toxigenic Fusarium species and understanding the phylogeny of the alternarioid hyphomycetes have also been dealt with in their respective chapters. Methods used in fungal evolutionary biology, their theory, examples and potential applications, and proteomics research for rapid diagnosis to invasive candidiasis have been reviewed in two different chapters. The ways in which molecular biologists and morphosystematists can develop synergy between them has been elaborated in the introductory chapter.
Introduction
What NEWGARDEN Does
Analyzing Genetic Diversity in Small, Isolated, and Developing Populations
Input
Output: What NEWGARDEN Tallies, Calculates, and Reports
Using NEWGARDEN
Founder Number and Allelic Diversity
Population Genetics Edge Effects
Spatial Arrangement of Founders
The Rate of Reproduction
Truly Random Mating and Selfing Rate
Dispersal Offspring Dispersal Distance and Pollen Dispersal Distance
The 50/500 -100 -1000 -5000 Ne Rules, Actual Population Size, and Loss of Diversity to Random Drift
Dioecy
Perennials
Actual Data versus NEWGARDEN: American Chestnut
Corridors
Conclusions and Discussion
Bibliography
Biography
Rogstad, Steven H.; Pelikan, Stephan