Genetic Structure and Local Adaptation in Natural Insect Populations, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1998 Effects of Ecology, Life History, and Behavior

Providing an essential foundation for evolutionary theory, this comprehensive volume examines patterns of genetic variation within natural insect populations, and explores the underlying mechanisms that lead to the genetic divergence of coexisting organisms. In particular, the text investigates current research on finescale genetic structure in natural insect populations.
Internationally renowned scientists offer a wealth of current information not previously published. Part I present case studies of adaptive genetic structure in natural insect populations, including a critical discussion of the strenghts and weaknesses of the experimental methods employed. Part II addresses the ecological mechanisms that produce adaptive genetic structure in natural insect populations. Part III describes how behavioral and life-history patterns influence genetic structure. Finally, Part IV combines theoretical and empirical approaches linking genetic structure at the population level with larger-scale patterns of variation, such as host race formation and speciation.
This broad-ranging, interdisciplinary source of information supplies a thorough examination of the mechanisms that promote and impede genetic structure in natural insect populations. It is a book that will be of interest to undergraduate and graduate students, and to researchers in the fields of ecology, evolution, insect and plant systems, entomology, and population genetics.

I. Local Adaptation: Empirical Evidence from Case Studies.- 1. Population Structure and the Conundrum of Local Adaptation.- 2. Deme Formation in a Dispersive Gall-Forming Midge.- 3. Prevention of Deme Formation by the Pinyon Needle Scale: Problems of Specializing in a Dynamic System.- 4. Local Adaptation in Specialist Herbivores: Theory and Evidence.- II. Foundations of Local Adaptation: The Genetic Basis of Host-Plant Use and the Nature of Selection.- 5. Population-Level Adaptation to Host-Plant Chemicals: The Role of Cytochrome P450 Monooxygenases.- 6. Assessment of Genetic Variation in the Presence of Maternal or Paternal Effects in Herbivorous Insects.- 7. Local Adaptation and Stochastic Events in an Oak Leafminer Population.- 8. The Strength of Selection: Intraspecific Variation in Host-Plant Quality and the Fitness of Herbivores.- III. Life History, Behavior, and Genetic Structure.- 9. Intrademic Genetic Structure and Natural Selection in Insects.- 10. Social Behavior and Its Effects on Colony- and Microgeographic Genetic Structure in Phytophagous Insect Populations.- 11. Dispersal and Adaptive Deme Formation in Sedentary Coccoid Insects.- 12. Life-History Strategies and the Genetic Structure of Phytophagous Insect Populations.- IV Local Adaptation, Host-Race Formation, and Speciation.- 13. Differential Adaptation in Spatially Heterogeneous Environments and Host-Parasite Coevolution.- 14. Scale-Dependent Evolution of Specialization in a Checkerspot Butterfly: From Individuals to Metapopulations and Ecotypes.- 15. Factors Affecting Gene Flow between the Host Races of Eurosta solidaginis.- 16. Sympatric Host-Race Formation and Speciation in Rhagoletis (Diptera: Tephritidae): A Tale of Two Species for Charles D..