Modern developments in theoretical population genetics : the legacy of Gustave Malécot. / edited by Montgomery Slatkin and Michel Veuille.

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2002], ©2002.

x, 264 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Copy 1. Donor: Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.

Introduction: the Malecot lineage in population genetics / Michel Veuille, Montgomery Slatkin -- Gustave Malecot -- Theory and population genetics -- Malecot and population genetics theory -- From 'descent with modification' to the 'coalescent' -- From Malecot to modern developments in population genetics theory -- The scientific work of Gustave Malecot (1911-1998): our common heritage / Michel Gillois -- Family, formation, and career -- French scientific climate from 1900 to 1940 -- Continuity and unity of Malecot's works -- Some comments about Malecot's works -- Gustave Malecot facing evolution -- The man -- Applications and extensions of Malecot's work in human genetics / Newton E. Morton -- Population structure -- Forensic DNA -- Linkage disequilibrium (LD) -- Envoi -- Usefulness of the identity coefficients for assessing evolutionary forces / Tomoko Ohta -- Concerted evolution of gene families -- Generation of genetic diversity -- Linkage disequilibrium between nucleotide sites -- Evolution of new genes -- Pre-speciation coalescence and the effective size of ancestral populations / Naoyuki Takahata, Yoko Satta -- Theory and application -- Intragenic recombination, rate heterogeneity, and simulation -- Recent applications of diffusion theory to population genetics / Wolfgang Stephan, Yuseob Kim -- The speed of Muller's ratchet in a haploid asexual population -- The effect of background selection on weakly selected, partially linked polymorphisms -- Effect of genetic hitch-hiking on neutral, partially linked polymorphisms.

Includes bibliographical references and index.