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A brief history of antibiotic resistance
A timeline
About the Authors
About This Book
Acknowledgments
Adaptation Changes Resulting from Natural Selection
Agriculture
Antibiotics and Antibiotic Resistance in a Nutshell
Archaeopteryx
Becoming Resistant to Antibiotics A Howto Guide
Being the best you can be on your own peak
Biogeographic patterns or location location location
Biological Evolution at a Glance
Bunnies in the Outback
But Wait not all traits are adaptations
Carved in stone The fossils
Changing the way antibiotics are used
Chromosomes in action Linkage and hitchhikers
Chromosomes Where your DNA is
Coding DNA Changing the Number of Genes an Organism
Coevolution and species interactions
Coe Volution Defined
Competition Unrest in the forest
Conservation
Contents at a Glance
Continuous and noncontinuous traits
Cooperative breeding
Crossing a threshold
Cultural evolution
Darwin and His Big Ideas
Darwins and Grants Finches
Defining Development From Embryo to Adult
Developmental stages Evolutionary stages
Different kinds of mutations
Direct matemate contests
Directional selection
Disease Systems Parasitic Coevolution
Diseasehost interaction in the lab
DNA A Molecule for Storing Genetic Information
DNAs fourletter alphabet
Dominant recessive or passiveaggressive
Dominating issues
Drift or selection When its hard to tell
Duplicating genes A gene is born
Earlier vs later stages
Evolution
Evolution A Fact and a Theory
Evolution and gravity Two peas in a scientific pod
Evolution and the Diversity of Life Histories
Evolution of Separate Sexes and the Sex Ratio
Evolving a bit at a time Partial resistance
Exaptation Selecting for one trait ending up with another
Experimental evidence
Figs and wasps I couldnt live without you baby
Foolish Assumptions
Founder effects
Genes Responsible for Development Hox Genes
Genetic Drift Defined
Genetic Drift in Action When Big Populations Get Little
Genome organization Nuclear mitochondrial or free floating
Getting genes from other lines Lateral gene transfer
Getting into Your Genes Very Basic Genetics
Gradualism Changes over time
Group selection
Helpers at the nest When the helpers are related
HIV The Origin and Evolution of a Virus
How fitness fits in with natural selection
How many copies
How to think like a scientist
Human babies
Human Evolution
Icons Used in This Book
Idea Sex is beneficial because it can eliminate bad mutations
Idea Sex produces parasiteresistant offspring
Important mutations
In This Chapter - 2 3 4
In this part - 2
Increases in subsequent populations
Index - 2
Indirect competition
Interacting genes
Interactions between Plants and Animals
Introduction
Islands Good Places to Vacation and Speciate
It Cant Create Complex Structures
It performs a function
Its all in the timing
Its not how you feel its how you look Runawayselection hypothesis
Its parasitic
Keeping it in the family
Key concepts in Variation
Key Ideas about Evo Devo
Knowledge about DNA and genetics
Levels of Selection
Little changes mean a lot
Measurement of the rates of change
Medicine
Molecular Evolution
Multigenetic traits in medicine and agriculture
Mutating like crazy
Mutualism You scratch my back Ill scratch yours
Natural Selection and Adaptations in Action
Natural selection and speciation
Natural selection Still acting on humans
Natural Versus Artificial Selection
Ndex
Nonproteincoding RNA
Number of genes
Of alleles and loci
Of mice and men and jellyfish
One Final Point Just How Evolved Are
One girl for every boy
One good turn deserves another Reciprocal altruism
One is the loneliest number Multicellularity
Or maybe it IS how you feel The goodgenes hypothesis
Other cooperative breeding behaviors
Other eusocial organisms
Outcomes of coevolution
Parasitic nonpollinators
What Evolution Is
How Evolution Works
What Evolution Does
Evolution and Your World
The Part of Tens
Part vThe part of Tens - 2
Passing It On Sexual Reproduction and the Genome
Phylogenetics Reconstructing the Tree of Life
Pollination Wars
Population bottlenecks
Population structure and gene flow
Predation and parasitism Im a giver youre a taker
Proteincoding RNA and the genetic code
Q
QTL mapping Identifying what genes matter
Quantitative Genetics When Many Genes Act at Once
R
Random Evolution and Genetic Drift Sometimes Its All about Chance
Reading the Instructions From DNA to RNA to Proteins
Reciprocal altruism in action
Reconstructing Trees An Example
Relaxation of selection
Resistance at the cellular and biochemical levels
Run Mouse
Seed dispersal
Seeing Phylogenetic Trees in Action
Selection at the level of the gene
Sex in Bacteria
Sharing pollinators
Shuffling exons Alternative gene splicing
Sight The Evolution of the
Sometimes its good to be discrete
Species and Speciation
Species and Speciation at a Glance
Sperm competition
Splitting microbial hairs Defining antibiotics
Stabilizing selection
Step Producing viruses with decreased fitness
Step Testing whether viral sex leads to increased fitness
Summing It All Up Genomes
Ten Amazing Adaptations
Ten Fascinating Fossil Finds
The adaptive landscape A D fitness map
The Battle against Antibiotic Resistance
The Caribbean tree frog
The development of queen vs worker bees
The effect of environment
The Evidence of Evolution
The Evolution of Altruistic Social Systems
The Evolution of Antibiotic Resistance
The Evolution of Life History
The evolution of pollination by animals
The fossil record
The handicap hypothesis
The History of the HIV Epidemic
The Neutral Theory of Molecular Evolution
The Origin of Homo Sapiens Where We Came From - 2
The Red Queen
The Science Past and Presentof Evolution
The Scientific Foundation of Evolution by Natural Selection
The Shifting Balance Hypothesis Its Whats Wright
The Thrifty Phenotype hypothesis Genes for flexibility
The Trade Off between Survival and Reproduction
The Whys and Wherefores of Noncoding DNA
Trading food and shelter for defense
Transcription Producing RNA
Trapjaw Ants
Turning back the clock to bacterial sensitivity
Two kinds of Variation Phenotypic and genotypic
Under construction The development process in action
Understanding adaptive characters
Understanding Quantitative Traits
Understanding Variation
Using the Hardy Weinberg equilibrium
V
Variation A Key Requirement for Evolution
Variation thats important to evolution - 2
What Evolution Is and Why You Need to Know
What Is Genetics
What this has to do with natural selection
What Viruses
What Youre Not to Read
Whats the big idea
When a population is small
When genetically different individuals have the same fitness
When its more likely to occur
When selection levels collide
When the helper isnt related
When the interactions change
When you can
When you cant
Where it came from
Where to Go from Here
Where Variation Comes From Mutations
Which comes first the mutant chicken or the selective agent
Why
Why any of this is important
Why Quantitative Genetics Is Important
Wiley
Wrapping Your Head Around Randomness
You cant get there from here Constraints and tradeoffs
You just cant get there from here

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