The Evolution of Anisogamy

Tatsuya Togashi is Professor of Marine Biology at Marine Biosystems Research Center, Chiba University, Kamogawa, Japan. Paul Alan Cox is Executive Director of the Institute for Ethnomedicine, Jackson Hole, Wyoming, USA.

• Introduction Paul Alan Cox; 1. The origin and maintenance of two sexes (anisogamy), and their gamete sizes by gamete competition Geoff A. Parker; 2. The evolutionary instability of isogamy Hiroyuki Matsuda and Peter A. Abrams; 3. Contact, not conflict, causes the evolution of anisogamy Joan Roughgarden and Priya Iyer; 4. Nucleo-cytoplasmic conflict and the evolution of gamete dimorphism Rolf F. Hoekstra; 5. Adaptive significance of egg size variation of aquatic organisms in relation to mesoscale features of aquatic environments Kinya Nishimura and Noboru Hoshino; 6. Gamete encounters David B. Dusenbery; 7. Evolution of anisogamy and related phenomena in marine green algae Tatsuya Togashi and John L. Bartelt; Index.

'This is a fascinating and authoritative collection shedding new light on one of the most fundamental challenges in evolutionary biology. Charles Darwin, who puzzled over the evolution of anisogamy, would much enjoy reading this book.' Simon A. Levin, Princeton University