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Title

Maternal effects as adaptations / edited by Timothy A. Mousseau & Charles W. Fox.

Publication

New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.

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Additional Authors

• Mousseau, Timothy A.
• Fox, Charles W.

Description

xiv, 375 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Subjects

• Evolution (Biology) > Congresses
• Congress
• Adaptation, Biological
• Adaptation (Biology) > Congresses

Genre/Form

Congress.

Note

• This volume was spawned by a symposium, Maternal Effects as Adaptations, organized for the annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Evolution, held in St. Louis in June 1996.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

• 1. The Evolutionary Genetics of Maternal Effects / Michael J. Wade -- 2. The Influence of Direct and Indirect Genetic Effects on the Evolution of Behavior: Social and Sexual Selection Meet Maternal Effects / Allen J. Moore, Jason B. Wolf and Edmund D. Brodie III -- 3. Inertial Growth: Population Dynamics Based on Maternal Effects / Lev R. Ginzburg -- 4. What Is an Adaptive Environmentally Induced Parental Effect? / Elizabeth P. Lacey -- 5. Oviposition Decisions as Maternal Effects: Conundrums and Opportunities for Conservation Biologists / Bernard D. Roitberg -- 6. The Detection and Measurement of Maternal Effects / Derek A. Roff -- 7. Genetics of Maternal and Paternal Effects / Ruth G. Shaw and Diane L. Byers -- 8. The Role of Environmental Variation in Parental Effects Expression / MaryCarol Rossiter -- 9. Maternal Environmental Effects in Plants: Adaptive Plasticity? / Kathleen Donohue and Johanna Schmitt --
• 10. Maternal Effects as Adaptations for Transgenerational Phenotypic Plasticity in Insects / Charles W. Fox and Timothy A. Mousseau -- 11. Are Maternal Effects in Fish Adaptive or Merely Physiological Side Effects? / Daniel D. Heath and D. Max Blouw -- 12. Maternal and Paternal Effects in Birds: Effects on Offspring Fitness / Trevor Price -- 13. Maternal Influences on Larval Competition in Insects / Frank J. Messina -- 14. Maternal Effects, Developmental Plasticity, and Life History Evolution: An Amphibian Model / Robert H. Kaplan -- 15. Perinatal Influences on the Reproductive Behavior of Adult Rodents / Mertice M. Clark and Bennett G. Galef, Jr. -- 16. Maternal Control of Fly Diapause / David L. Denlinger -- 17. Adaptation of Maternal Effects in the Wild: Path Analysis of Natural Variation and Experimental Tests of Causation / Barry Sinervo -- 18. Maternal Effects and the Maintenance of Environmental Sex Determination / Willem M. Roosenburg and Peter Niewiarowski --
• 19. Density-Mediated Maternal Effects on Seed Size in Wild Radish: Genetic Variation and Its Evolutionary Implications / Susan J. Mazer and Lorne M. Wolfe -- Concluding Remarks: Generalizations, Implications, and Future Directions.

ISBN

019511163X (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

97020875

OCLC

ocm36876188

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries