Infection, polymorphism, and evolution / edited by W.D. Hamilton and J.C. Howard.

London ; New York : Chapman & Hall, 1997.

viii, 120 pages : illustrations ; 31 cm

Conference proceedings.

Published in association with The Royal Society.

Copy 1. Supplier/Donor: Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.

Selection by parasites for clonal diversity and mixed mating / Curtis M. Lively and R. Stephen Howard -- Recognition and polymorphism in host-parasite systems / Steven A. Frank -- Viral pathogens and the advantage of sex in the perennial grass Anthoxanthum odoratum / Steven E. Kelly -- Mate choice and maternal selection for specific parasite resistances before, during and after fertilization / Claus Wedekind -- Infection and colony variability in social insects / Paul Schmid-Hempel -- Infectious diseases, reproductive effort and the cost of reproduction in birds / L. Gustafsson, D. Nordling, M.S. Andersson, B.C. Sheldon and A. Qvarnstrom -- Evolution of mutation rate and virulence among human retroviruses / Paul W. Ewald -- Gene-for-gene recognition in plant-pathogen interactions / Ian R. Crute -- MHC polymorphism and parasites / Jan Klein and Colm O'Huigin -- Natural selection at the class II major histocompatability complex loci of mammals / Austin L. Hughes, Marianne K. Hughes, Carina Y. Howell and Masatoshi Nei -- The role of infectious disease, inbreeding and mating preferences in maintaining MHC genetic diversity: an experimental test / Wayne K. Potts, C. Jo Manning and Edward K. Wakeland -- Human leukocyte antigens and natural selection by malaria / Adrian V.S. Hill, Simon N.R. Yates, Catherine E.M. Allsopp, Sunetra Gupta, Sarah C. Gilbert, Ajit Lalvani, Michael Aidoo, Miles Davenport and Magdalena Plebanski.

Includes bibliographical references and index.