Maternal Effects as Adaptations

Inbunden, Engelska, 1998

Av Fox Mousseau, Timothy A. Mousseau, Charles W. Fox, USA) Mousseau, Timothy A. (Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, University of South Carolina, Columbia, Fordham University) Fox, Charles W. (Assistant ProfessorThe Louis Calder Center, Biological Field Station, Assistant ProfessorThe Louis Calder Center, Biological Field Station

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Phenotypic variation is influenced by both genetic and environmental variation. One important source of environmental variation is the maternal effect: influences of the maternal environment on offspring phenotype. Heritable maternal effects have been shown to influence the life histories, behaviour, and population dynamics of a wide variety of plants and animals. They are likely to have evolved as a mechanism for cueing offspring to appropriate development for predicted environmental conditions. This will be the first book dealing with the broad range of maternal effects.

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Utgivningsdatum1998-07-23
Mått160 x 236 x 25 mm
Vikt703 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor400
FörlagOUP USA
ISBN9780195111637

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Part 1: Theoretical Considerations ; 1. The Evolutionary Genetics of Maternal Effects ; 2. The Influence of Direct and Indirect Genetic Effects on the Evolution of Behavior: Social and Sexual Selection Meet Maternal Effects ; 3. Inertial Growth: Population Dynamics Based on Maternal Effects ; 4. What is Adaptive Environmentally Induced Parental Effect? ; 5. Oviposition Decisions as Maternal Effects: Conundrums and Opportunities for Conservation Biologists ; Part 2: Assessment and Measurement ; 6. The Detection and Measurement of Maternal Effects ; 7. The Genetics of Maternal Effects ; 8. The Role of Environmental Variation in Parental Effects Expression ; Part 3: Reviews of Maternal Effects Expression ; 9. Maternal Environmental Effects in Plants: Adaptive Plasticity? ; 10. Maternal Effects as Adaptations for Transgenerational Phenotypic Plasticity (TPP) ; 11. Are Maternal Effects in Fish Adaptive or Merely Physiological Side-Effects? ; 12. Maternal and Paternal Effects in Birds ; 13. Maternal Influences on Larval Competition in Insects ; 14. Maternal Effects, Developmental Plasticity, and Life History Evolution: An Amphibial Model ; 15. Perinatal Influences on the Reproductive Behavior of Adult Rodents ; Part 4: Case Studies of Maternal Effects ; 16. Maternal Control of Fly Diapause ; 17. Adaptation of Maternal Effects in the Wild: Path Analysis of Natural Variation and Experimental Tests of Causation ; 18. Maternal Effects and the Maintenance of Environmental Sex Determination ; 19. Density-Mediated Maternal Effects on Seed Size in Wild Radish: Genetic Variation and its Evolutionary Implications ; Concluding Remarks: Generalizations, Implications, and Future Directions