Mechanisms of life history evolution
Subtitle: the genetics and physiology of life history traits and trade-offs
By: edited by Thomas Flatt, Andreas Heyland..
Series: Oxford biology; Oxford biology
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 478
ISBN-13: 9780199568765; 9780199568772
Subjects: Evolutionary genetics; Life cycles (Biology)
Description: This title explains the evolution of the major features of life cycles by analyzing the ecological factors that shape age-specific schedules of growth, reproduction, and survival and by investigating the trade-offs that constrain the evolution of these traits.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 380-468) and index.
Table of contents: title: Integrating mechanistic and evolutionary analysis of life history variation / Christian Braendle, Andreas Heyland, and Thomas Flatt; title: Genomic insights into life history evolution / Derek A. Roff; title: Emerging patterns in the regulation and evolution of marine invertebrate settlement and metamorphosis / Andreas Heyland, Adam M. Reitzel, and Sandie Degnan; title: Evolution and the regulation of growth and body size / Alexander W. Shingleton; title: The genetic and endocrine basis for the evolution of metamorphosis in insects / Deniz F. Erezylimaz; title: Thyroidal regulation of life history transitions in fish / Richard G. Manzon; title: Hormone regulation and the evolution of frog metamorphic diversity / Daniel Buchholz ... [et al.]; title: Asexual reproduction in cnidaria: comparative developmental processes and candidate mechanisms / Adam M. Reitzel, Derek Stefanik, and John R. Finnerty; title: The genetics and evolution of flowering time variation in plants: identifying genes that control a key life history transition / Joshua A. Banta and Michael D. Purugganan; title: Mechanisms of nutrient dependent reproduction in dipteran insects / Alan O. Bergland; title: Mechanisms underlying reproductive trade-offs: costs of reproduction / Dominic A. Edward and Tracey Chapman; title: Patterns and processes of human life history evolution / Michael P. Muehlenbein and Mark V. Flinn; title: Parallels in understanding the endocrine control of lifespan with the firebug pyrrhocoris apterus and the fruit fly drosophila melanogaster / Magdalena Hodkova and Marc Tatar; title: The genetics of dietary modulation of lifespan / Johannes H. Bauer and Stephen L. Helfand; title: Molecular stress pathways and the evolution of life histories in reptiles / Tonia S. Schwartz and Anne M. Bronikowski; title: Mechanisms of aging in human populations / Maris Kuningas and Rudi G.J. Westendorp; title: Mechanisms underlying feeding-structure plasticity in echinoderm larvae / Benjamin G. Miner; title: Evolution and mechanisms of insect reproductive diapause, a plastic and pleiotropic life history syndrome / Paul S. Schmidt; title: Seasonal polyphenisms and environmentally-induced plasticity in the lepidoptera - the coordinated evolution of many traits on multiple levels / Paul M. Brakefield and Bas J. Zwaan; title: Honey bee life history plasticity - development, behavior, and aging / Brenda Rascón ... [et al.]; title: Molecular mechanisms of life history trade-offs and the evolution of multicellular complexity in volvocalean green algae / Aurora M. Nedelcu and Richard E. Michod; title: Molecular basis of life history regulation in C. elegans and other organisms / Birgit Gerisch and Adam Antebi; title: The costs of immunity and the evolution of immunological defense mechanisms / Kurt A. McKean and Brian P. Lazzaro; title: Intermediary metabolism and the biochemical-molecular basis of life history variation and trade-offs in two insect models / Anthony J. Zera and Lawrence G. Harshman; title: Epistatic social and endocrine networks and the evolution of life history trade-offs and plasticity / Lesley T. Lancaster and Barry Sinervo; title: Hormonally-regulated trade-offs: evolutionary variability and phenotypic plasticity in testosterone signaling pathways / Michaela Hau and John C. Wingfield; title: Does impressive progress on understanding mechanisms advance life history theory? / Stephen C. Stearns; title: What mechanistic insights can or cannot contribute to life history evolution - an exchange between Stearns, Heyland, and Flatt / Thomas Flatt, Andreas Heyland, and Stephen C. Stearns.