1st Edition

Genetic Diversity in Establishing Plant Populations Founder Number and Geometry

Edited By Steven H. Rogstad, Stephan Pelikan Copyright 2012
    368 Pages 125 B/W Illustrations
    by CRC Press

    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