| Main Title |
Mechanisms of life history evolution : the genetics and physiology of life history traits and trade-offs / |
| Other Authors |
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| Publisher |
Oxford University Press, |
| Year Published |
2011 |
| OCLC Number |
694395518 |
| ISBN |
9780199568765 (hbk. : acid-free paper); 0199568766 (hbk. : acid-free paper); 9780199568772 (pbk. : acid-free paper); 0199568774 (pbk. : acid-free paper) |
| Subjects |
Life cycles (Biology) ;
Evolutionary genetics ;
Biological Evolution ;
Adaptation, Physiological
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| Holdings |
| Library |
Call Number |
Additional Info |
Location |
Last
Modified |
Checkout
Status |
| ELBM |
QH501.M43 2011 |
|
AWBERC Library/Cincinnati,OH |
10/29/2012 |
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| Collation |
xxv, 478 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Notes |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 380-468) and index. |
| Contents Notes |
Integrating mechanisms into life history evolution: Integrating mechanistic and evolutionary analysis of life history variation / Christian Braendle, Andreas Heyland, and Thomas Flatt. Genomic insights into life history evolution / Derek A. Roff -- Growth, development, and maturation: Emerging patterns in the regulation and evolution of marine invertebrate settlement and metamorphosis / Andreas Heyland, Sandie Degnan, and Adam M. Reitzel. Evolution and the regulation of growth and body size / Alexander W. Shingleton. The genetic and endocrine basis for the evolution of metamorphosis in insects / Deniz F. Erezylimaz. Thyroidal regulation of life history transitions in fish / Richard G. Manzon. Hormone regulation and the evolution of frog metamorphic diversity / Daniel R. Buchholz ... [et al.] -- Reproduction: Asexual reproduction in cnidaria : comparative developmental processes and candidate mechanisms / Adam M. Reitzel, Derek Stefanik, and John R. Finnerty. 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. Mechanisms of nutrient-dependent reproduction in dipteran insects / Alan O. Bergland. Mechanisms underlying reproductive trade-offs : costs of reproduction / Dominic A. Edward and Tracey Chapman. Patterns and processes of human life history evolution / Michael P. Muehlenbein and Mark V. Flinn -- Lifespan, aging, and somatic maintenance: Parallels in understanding the endocrine control of lifespan with the firebug Pyrrhocoris apterus and the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster / Magdalena Hodkova and Marc Tatar. The genetics of dietary modulation of lifespan / Johannes H. Bauer and Stephen L. Helfand. Molecular stress pathways and the evolution of life histories in reptiles / Tonia S. Schwartz and Anne M. Bronikowski. Mechanisms of aging in human populations / Maris Kuningas and Rudi G.J. Westendorp -- Life history plasticity: Mechanisms underlying feeding-structure plasticity in echinoderm larvae / Benjamin G. Miner. Evolution and mechanisms of insect reproductive diapause : a plastic and pleiotropic life history syndrome / Paul S. Schmidt. 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. Honey bee life history plasticity : development, behavior, and aging / Brenda Rascâon ... [et al.] -- Life history integration and trade-offs: Molecular mechanisms of life history trade-offs and the evolution of multicellular complexity in volvocalean green algae / Aurora M. Nedelcu and Richard E. Michod. Molecular basis of life history regulation in C. elegans and other organisms / Birgit Gerisch and Adam Antebi. The costs of immunity and the evolution of immunological defense mechanisms / Kurt A. McKean and Brian P. Lazzaro. 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. Epistatic social and endocrine networks and the evolution of life history trade-offs and plasticity / Lesley T. Lancaster and Barry Sinervo. Hormonally-regulated trade-offs : evolutionary variability and phenotypic plasticity in testosterone signaling pathways / Michaela Hau and John C. Wingfield -- Concluding remarks: Does impressive progress on understanding mechanisms advance life history theory? / Stephen C. Stearns. 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. |
| Place Published |
Oxford England ; New York |
| Title Ser Add Ent |
Oxford biology. |
| Alternate Title |
Genetics and physiology of life history traits and trade-offs\ Life history traits and trade-offs |
| PUB Date Free Form |
2011 |
| Series Title Untraced |
Oxford biology |
| BIB Level |
m |
| Cataloging Source |
OCLC/T |
| LCCN |
2011920657 |
| OCLC Time Stamp |
20121026134134 |
| Language |
eng |
| Origin |
OCLC |
| Type |
CAT |
| OCLC Rec Leader |
05752cam 2200601 a 45020 |
