Development and Environment

Dr. Warren Burggren, University of North Texas, Denton, TX Dr. Ben Dubansky, University of North Texas, Denton, TX

• Introduction.- Current Trends and Perspectives in Environmental Developmental Physiology.- Experimental Approaches.- Section Introduction.- The Opportunities and Limitations of Laboratory versus Field Approaches.- Adverse Outcome Pathways and Systems Integration.- Multivariate Experimental Designs in Environmental Developmental Physiology.- Emerging Data Bases and Data Management Plans.- Case Study: Research Consortia and the Art of Collaboration.- Multiple environmental stressors, their interactions and the complex responses they evoke.- Section Introduction.- Multiple Stressor Interactions.- Multiple System Interactions.- Integrated Responses from the Molecular to the Population Level.- Case Study: Developmental Physiology at High Altitude.- Plasticity in developmental time and space.- Section Introduction.- Active and Passive Responses to the Environment in Developing Animals: Costs and Benefits.- Epigenetics in Environmental Developmental Physiology.- Developmental Windows.- Developmental Plasticity and Heterokairy.- Case Study: Larval Development in Fishes.

“This volume should be of interest to graduate students, researchers, and faculty working at the interface of environmental science and developmental biology. This collection will likely serve as a critical reference for those interested in plasticity and stress in aquatic animal systems.” (Emilie Snell-Rood, The Quarterly Review of Biology, Vol. 94 (4), December, 2019)