Sex Allocation (eBook)

Stuart West (Autor)

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2009
480 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-3201-9 (ISBN)

Infos

Recent decades have witnessed an explosion of theoretical and empirical studies of sex allocation, transforming how we understand the allocation of resources to male and female reproduction in vertebrates, invertebrates, protozoa, and plants. In this landmark book, Stuart West synthesizes the vast literature on sex allocation, providing the conceptual framework the field has been lacking and demonstrating how sex-allocation studies can shed light on broader questions in evolutionary and behavioral biology. West clarifies fundamental misconceptions in the application of theory to empirical data. He examines the field's successes and failures, and describes the research areas where much important work is yet to be done. West reveals how a shared underlying theoretical framework unites findings of sex-ratio variation across a huge range of life forms, from malarial parasites and hermaphroditic worms to sex-changing fish and mammals. He shows how research on sex allocation has been central to many critical questions and controversies in evolutionary and behavioral biology, and he argues that sex-allocation research serves as a key testing ground for different theoretical approaches and can help resolve debates about social evolution, parent-offspring conflict, genomic conflict, and levels of selection. Certain to become the defining book on the subject for the next generation of researchers, Sex Allocation explains why the study of sex allocation provides an ideal model system for advancing our understanding of the constraints on adaptation among all living things in the natural world.

Autor

Stuart West is professor of evolutionary biology at the University of Oxford.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.9.2009
• Reihe/Serie: Monographs in Population Biology
• Reihe/Serie: Monographs in Population Biology
• Zusatzinfo: 107 line illus. 15 tables.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Evolution
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Genetik / Molekularbiologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: Allosome • Alternative mating strategy • Arachnid • Army ant • bird • Budding • Charles Darwin • Coefficient of relationship • Coevolution • cooperative breeding • Critical period • Cytoplasmic Male sterility • Dioecy • dominance hierarchy • Effective population size • Environmental Sex Determination • Eusociality • Evolution of sexual reproduction • Fecundity • female • Fisherian runaway • Fisher's principle • Fitness model (network theory) • frequency-dependent selection • Gamete • genetic variability • genetic variance • genomic imprinting • gonad • group selection • Haldane's rule • haplodiploidy • Harris's hawk • heredity • Heritability • Hermaphrodite • Heterogametic sex • Horizontal transmission • Human sex ratio • Hybrid (biology) • Hybrid inviability • Inbreeding • inclusive fitness • Intersex • Intragenomic conflict • introgression • kin selection • Linkage Disequilibrium • Male egg • mate choice • mating • mating preferences • Meiotic drive • Meta-analysis • Mutation–selection balance • Nasonia vitripennis • Natural selection • observational study • outcrossing • Oviparity • parasitism • Parasitoid wasp • Parental investment • Parthenogenesis • Pemphigus spyrothecae • Pheromone • Polymorphism (biology) • Population • Population bottleneck • Population cycle • Population Size • reproductive isolation • Reproductive success • Reproductive value (population genetics) • Scramble competition • Selection bias • selective sweep • selfing • Sex • Sex allocation • Sex Change • Sex Ratio • Sex reversal • sexual conflict • Sexual Dimorphism • sexual reproduction • Sexual Selection • Small population size • species complex • sperm competition • Temperature-dependent sex determination • Termite • The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex • The Evolution of Cooperation • Vestigiality • Wolbachia • Worker policing • XY sex-determination system • zygosity • Zygote
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-3201-2 / 1400832012
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-3201-9 / 9781400832019