Maternal Effects as Adaptations

Timothy A. Mousseau, Charles W. Fox (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

400 Seiten

1998
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-511163-7 (ISBN)

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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.

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

Erscheint lt. Verlag	23.7.1998
Zusatzinfo	numerous line figures
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 236 mm
Gewicht	703 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Evolution
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Genetik / Molekularbiologie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Mikrobiologie / Immunologie
ISBN-10	0-19-511163-X / 019511163X
ISBN-13	978-0-19-511163-7 / 9780195111637
Zustand	Neuware