- A brief history of antibiotic resistance
- A timeline
- About This Book
- Acknowledgments
- Adaptation Changes Resulting from Natural Selection
- Agriculture
- Antibiotics and Antibiotic Resistance in a Nutshell
- Archaeopteryx
- At the level of the gametes
- 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
- 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
- Going to extremes Eusociality
- 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
- 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
- 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