Title: Evolution in action : case studies in adaptive radiation, speciation and the origin of biodiversity /
Authors: Glaubrecht, Matthias.; Schneider, Harald.; DFG-Schwerpunktprogramm 1127 "Radiations : Origins of Biological Diversity."; Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.
Publisher: Springer,
Year: 2010
Subjects: Species.; Evolution (Biology); Biodiversity; Adaptation (Biology); Adaptation (Biology); Biodiversity; Evolution (Biology); Species; Evolution; Art.; Evolution.; Evolution.; Berlin.
Contents: Rapid radiations and neoendemism in the Madagascan biodiversity hotspot / Harald Schneider [and others] -- Rapid radiation in the barley genus Hordeum (Poaceae) during the Pleistocene in the Americas / Frank R. Blattner, Thekla Pleines, and Sabine S. Jakob -- Studying adaptive radiation at the molecular level : a case study in the Macaronesian Crassulaceae-Sempervivoideae / Mike Thiv, Korinna Esfeld, and Marcus Koch -- Key innovations versus key opportunities : identifying causes of rapid radiations in derived ferns / Harald Schneider [and others] -- Evolution of the mating system in the genus Capsella (Brassicaceae) / Melanie Paetsch [and others] -- Pollinator-driven speciation in sexually deceptive orchids of the genus Ophrys / Manfred Ayasse, Julia Gögler, and Johannes Stökl --^ Population genetics of speciation and demographic inference under population subdivision : insights from studies on wild tomatoes (Solanum sect. Lycopersicon) / Wolfgang Stephan and Thomas Städler -- Genetic diversity, evolution and domestication of wheat and barley in the Fertile Crescent / Benjamin Kilian, William Martin, and Francesco Salamini -- Mechanisms of speciation in Southeast Asian ant-plants of the genus Macaranga (Euphorbiaceae) / Kurt Weising [and others] -- Speciation in obligately plant-associated Crematogaster ants : host distribution rather than adaption towards specific hosts drives the process / Heike Feldhaar, Jürgen Gadau, and Brigitte Fiala -- Radiation, biological diversity and host-parasite interactions in wild roses, rust fungi and insects / Annette Kohnen [and others] -- Speciation via differential host-plant use in the tephritid fly Tephritis conura / Jes Johannesen, Thorsten Diegisser, and Alfred Seitz --^ Solar powered seaslugs (Opisthobranchia, Gastropoda, Mollusca) : incorporation of photosynthetic units : a key character enhancing radiation? / Heike Wägele [and others] -- Are cuticular hydrocarbons involved in speciation of fungus-growing termites (Isoptera: Macrotermitinae)? / Andreas Marten, Manfred Kaib, and Roland Brandl -- Electric organ discharge divergence promotes ecological speciation in sympatrically occurring African weakly electric fish (Campylomormyrus) / Ralph Tiedemann, Philine G.D. Feulner, and Frank Kirschbaum -- Ongoing phenotypic and genotypic diversification in adaptively radiated freshwater crabs from Jamaica / Christoph D. Schubart [and others] -- The herring gull complex (Larus argentatus -- fuscus -- cachinnans) as a model group for recent Holarctic vertebrate radiations / Dorit Liebers-Helbig [and others] -- Genetic divergence and evolution of reproductive isolation in eastern Mediterranean water frogs / Jörg Plötner [and others] --^ Inferring multiple Corsican Limax (Pulmonata: Limacidae) radiations : a combined approach using morphology and molecules / Barbara Nitz, Gerhard Falkner, and Gerhard Haszprunar -- Palaeogeography or sexual selection: which factors promoted Cretan land snail radiations? / Jan Sauer and Bemhard Hausdorf -- Non-ecological radiations in acoustically communicating grasshoppers? / Frieder Mayer [and others] -- Beyond sympatric speciation : radiation of sailfin silverside fishes in the Malili Lakes (Sulawesi) / Fabian Herder and Ulrich K. Schliewen -- The species flocks of the viviparous freshwater gastropod Tylomelania (Mollusca: Cerithioidea: Pachychilidae) in the ancient lakes of Sulawesi, Indonesia : the role of geography, trophic morphology and color as driving forces in adaptive radiation / Thomas von Rintelen, Kristina yon Rintelen, and Matthias Glaubrecht --^ Speciation and radiation in a river : assessing the morphological and genetic differentiation in a species flock of viviparous gastropods (Cerithioidea: Pachychilidae) / Frank Köhler, Somsak Panha, and Matthias Glaubrecht -- The neglected side of the coin : non-adaptive radiations in spring snails (Bythinella spp.) / Thomas Wilke [and others].