Evolution in action
Subtitle: case studies in adaptive radiation, speciation and the origin of biodiversity
By: Matthias Glaubrecht, editor ; in cooperation with Harald Schneider
Contributors: DFG-Schwerpunktprogramm 1127 "Radiations : Origins of Biological Diversity."; Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Heidelberg; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 586
ISBN-13: 9783642124242; 9783642124259
Subjects: Adaptation (Biology); Evolution (Biology); Biodiversity; Evolution; Species
Notes: "Special volume originating from contributions to the Priority Programme SPP 1127 'Radiations : Origins of Biological Diversity' of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Rapid radiations and neoendemism in the Madagascan biodiversity hotspot / Harald Schneider ... [et al.]; title: Rapid radiation in the barley genus Hordeum (Poaceae) during the Pleistocene in the Americas / Frank R. Blattner, Thekla Pleines, and Sabine S. Jakob; title: Studying adaptive radiation at the molecular level : a case study in the Macaronesian Crassulaceae-Sempervivoideae / Mike Thiv, Korinna Esfeld, and Marcus Koch; title: Key innovations versus key opportunities : identifying causes of rapid radiations in derived ferns / Harald Schneider ... [et al.]; title: Evolution of the mating system in the genus Capsella (Brassicaceae) / Melanie Paetsch ... [et al.]; title: Pollinator-driven speciation in sexually deceptive orchids of the genus Ophrys / Manfred Ayasse, Julia Gögler, and Johannes Stökl; title: Population genetics of speciation and demographic inference under population subdivision : insights from studies on wild tomatoes (Solanum sect. Lycopersicon) / Wolfgang Stephan and Thomas Städler; title: Genetic diversity, evolution and domestication of wheat and barley in the Fertile Crescent / Benjamin Kilian, William Martin, and Francesco Salamini; title: Mechanisms of speciation in Southeast Asian ant-plants of the genus Macaranga (Euphorbiaceae) / Kurt Weising ... [et al.]; title: 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; title: Radiation, biological diversity and host-parasite interactions in wild roses, rust fungi and insects / Annette Kohnen ... [et al.]; title: Speciation via differential host-plant use in the tephritid fly Tephritis conura / Jes Johannesen, Thorsten Diegisser, and Alfred Seitz; title: Solar powered seaslugs (Opisthobranchia, Gastropoda, Mollusca) : incorporation of photosynthetic units : a key character enhancing radiation? / Heike Wägele ... [et al.]; title: Are cuticular hydrocarbons involved in speciation of fungus-growing termites (Isoptera: Macrotermitinae)? / Andreas Marten, Manfred Kaib, and Roland Brandl; title: Electric organ discharge divergence promotes ecological speciation in sympatrically occurring African weakly electric fish (Campylomormyrus) / Ralph Tiedemann, Philine G.D. Feulner, and Frank Kirschbaum; title: Ongoing phenotypic and genotypic diversification in adaptively radiated freshwater crabs from Jamaica / Christoph D. Schubart ... [et al.]; title: The herring gull complex (Larus argentatus - fuscus - cachinnans) as a model group for recent Holarctic vertebrate radiations / Dorit Liebers-Helbig ... [et al.]; title: Genetic divergence and evolution of reproductive isolation in eastern Mediterranean water frogs / Jörg Plötner ... [et al.]; title: Inferring multiple Corsican Limax (Pulmonata: Limacidae) radiations : a combined approach using morphology and molecules / Barbara Nitz, Gerhard Falkner, and Gerhard Haszprunar; title: Palaeogeography or sexual selection: which factors promoted Cretan land snail radiations? / Jan Sauer and Bemhard Hausdorf; title: Non-ecological radiations in acoustically communicating grasshoppers? / Frieder Mayer ... [et al.]; title: Beyond sympatric speciation : radiation of sailfin silverside fishes in the Malili Lakes (Sulawesi) / Fabian Herder and Ulrich K. Schliewen; title: 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; title: 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; title: The neglected side of the coin : non-adaptive radiations in spring snails (Bythinella spp.) / Thomas Wilke ... [et al.].