Phenotypic Integration: Studying the Ecology and Evolution of Complex Phenotypes - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0195160436 ISBN 13: 9780195160437

Casa editrice: OUP USA, 2004

Riassunto

A new voice in the nature-nurture debate can be heard at the interface between evolution and development. Phenotypic integration--or, how large numbers of characteristics are related to make up the whole organism, and how these relationships evolve and change their function--is a major growth area in research, attracting the attention of evolutionary biologists, developmental biologists, and geneticists, as well as, more broadly, ecologists, physiologists, and paleontologists. This edited collection presents much of the best and most recent work the topic.

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Contenuti

• Carl Schlichting: Foreword: The diversity of complexity
• Phenotypic Integration: Studying the Ecology and Evolution of Complex Phenotypes
• Section I: Adaptation and constraints
• 1: W. Scott Armbruster, Christophe Pélabon, Thomas F. Hansen, and Christa P. H. Mulder: Floral integration, modularity, and accuracy: distinguishing complex adaptations from genetic constraints
• 2: Alexander V. Badyaev: Integration and modularity in the evolution of sexual ornaments: An overlooked perspective
• 3: Katherine A. Preston and David D. Ackerly: the Evolution of allometry in modular organisms
• 4: Juha Merilä and Mats Björklund: Phenotypic integration as a constraint and adaptation
• 5: Thomas F. Hansen and David Houlehe: Evolvability, stabilizing selection, and the problem of stasis
• Section II: Phenotypic plasticity and integration
• 6: Massimo Pigliucci: Studying the plasticity of phenotypic integration in a model organism
• 7: Rick A. Relyea: Integrating phenotypic plasticity when death is on the line: Insights from predator-prey systems
• Section III: Genetics and molecular biology of phenotypic integration
• 8: Courtney J. Murren and Paula X. Kover: QTL Mapping: a first step towards an understanding of molecular genetic mechanisms behind phenotypic complexity/integration
• 9: Christian Peter Klingenberg: Integration, modules, and development: molecules to morphology to evolution
• 10: Massimo Pigliucci: Studying mutational effects on G-matrices
• Section IV: Macroevolutionary patterns in phenotypic integration
• 11: Gunther J. Eble: the Macroevolution of phenotypic integration
• 12: Miriam Leah Zelditch and Rosa A. Moscarella: Form, Function and Life-History: Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Integration
• 13: Rebecca Rogers Ackermann and James M. Cheverud: Morphological Integration in Primate Evolution
• Section V: Theory and analysis of phenotypic integration
• 14: Scott J. Steppan: Phylogenetic comparative analysis of multivariate data
• 15: Derek Roff: The Evolution of genetic architecture
• 16: Jason B. Wolf, Cerisse E. Allen and W. Anthony Frankino: Multivariate phenotypic evolution in developmental hyperspace
• 17: Kurt Schwenk and Günter P. Wagner: the Relativism of constraints on phenotypic evolution
• 18: Paul E. Griffiths, and Russell D. Gray: The Developmental Systems Perspective: Organism-environment systems as units of development and evolution
• Conclusion

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: OUP USA
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0195160436
• ISBN 13: 9780195160437
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 464
• Redattore: Pigliucci Massimo, Preston Katherine
• Contatto del produttore: Messaggerie Libri; ufficio.anagrafiche@meli.it; ; Via Verdi, 8.; Assago Milano; 20090; Italia