Insect Life Cycles

Genetics, Evolution and Coordination

Francis Gilbert (Herausgeber)

XIV, 258 Seiten

1990
Springer Berlin (Hersteller)
978-3-540-19550-4 (ISBN)

Infos

Provides a diverse array of studies on insect life-cycle evolution covering three main approaches: comparisons of genetic variation and covariation underlying life-cycles; comparisons of variable phenotypes in the same or related species; and comparisons of habitat-specific traits.

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The International Congress of Entomology holds symposia on insect life-cycles every four years. This book arose from papers contributed by most of the speakers at the latest symposium held in Vancouver, Canada, in July 1988. It provides a diverse array of studies on insect life-cycle evolution which can be broken down into three main levels of approach: comparisons of genetic variation and covariation underlying life-cycle traits; comparisons of variable phenotypes within and among populations of the same and/or related species; and comparisons of habitat-specific traits regardless of relatedness.

Inhalt

Part 1 Genetics of life-cycle traits: evolution of insect life-cycles; the role of genetic analysis. Part 2 Evolution of life-cycle traits: use of selection to probe patterns of pleiotropy in fitness characters; phenology and demography in the pitcher-plant mosquito; developmental programmes and adaptive syndromes in insect life-cycles; coevolution between herbivorous insects and plants; size phylogeny and life-history in the evolution of feeding specialization in insect predators; opportunistic diapause in the subtropical ground cricket; evolution of mutualistic life cycles - yucca moths and fig wasps; testing hypotheses about the evolution of the mean phenotype in temporarily variable environments. Part 3 Co-ordination of life-cycle traits: insect herbivores; herbivory and plant succession; migration and co-ordination of life-cycles exemplified by lygaeidae bugs; competition and selection in habitat - the implications for insect life-cycles; facultative and obligatory diapause responses in three species of Burnet moths; the present and future of insect life-cycle evolution.

Produkt-Details

• Zusatzinfo: 91 figs.
• Verlagsort: Berlin
• Sprache: englisch
• Gewicht: 635 g
• Einbandart: gebunden
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie
• ISBN-10: 3-540-19550-5 / 3540195505
• ISBN-13: 978-3-540-19550-4 / 9783540195504
• Zustand: Neuware