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EAN (ISBN-13): 9789400926059
Verschijningsjaar: 2012
Uitgever: Springer Netherlands

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Auteur: Michael N. Bruton
Titel: Perspectives in Vertebrate Science; Alternative Life-History Styles of Animals
Uitgeverij: Springer; Springer Netherland
617 Bladzijden
Verschijningsjaar: 2012-12-06
Dordrecht; NL
Taal: Engels
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354,00 CHF (CH)
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EA; E107; eBook; Nonbooks, PBS / Biologie/Zoologie; Zoologie und Tierwissenschaften; Verstehen; Charles Darwin; Darwin; Evolution; Insecta; Mammalia; Orthoptera; development; developmental biology; environment; ontogeny; phenotype; C; Zoology; Ecology; Evolutionary Biology; Animal Anatomy; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Ökologie, Biosphäre; Evolution; BC

Prologue.- 1. The Tao of life: from the dynamic unity of polar opposites to self-organization.- I. Theories, mechanisms and examples.- 2. Developmental biology and alternative life styles.- 3. On divergent and progressive evolution.- 4. Direct and indirect development in fishes — examples of alternative life-history styles.- 5. Alternative life-history styles in anuran amphibians: evolutionary and ecological implications.- 6. Alternative life-history styles in reptiles.- 7. Environmentally guided phenotype plasticity in mammals and some of its consequences to theoretical and applied biology.- 8. Sex change as an alternative life-history style.- 9. Environmental restraints and life strategies: a habitat templet matrix.- 10. Alternative life-history styles of small mammals.- II. Theories contested or tested.- 11. Ontogeny and evolution: saltatory or otherwise?.- 12. Alternative sexual tactics in male bladder grasshoppers (Orthoptera, Pneumoridae).- 13. Alternative life-history styles of mutillid wasps (Insecta, Hymenoptera).- 14. Alternative life-history styles in Simuliidae (Insecta, Diptera).- 15. The evolution of alternative life styles in Coleoptera.- 16. Alternative life-history styles in salmonine fishes with emphasis on arctic charr, Salvelinus alpinus.- 17. Metamorphosis in the frog Arthroleptella lightfooti (Anura, Ranidae) with emphasis on neuro-endocrine mechanisms.- 18. Allometry and the breeding biology of some plovers.- 19. Alternative life-history styles of South African birds.- 20. Life-history styles of southern African Mastomys natalensis, Otomys irroratus and Rhabdomys pumilio (Mammalia, Rodentia).- 21. The megaherbivore syndrome: alternative life style or different time frame?.- 22. The constraint of maternal nutrition on the trajectory of fetalgrowth in humans.- III. Are new paradigms emerging?.- 23. The epigenetic mechanisms of bifurcation and alternative life-history styles.- 24. The ecological significance of alternative life-history styles.- Transcript of discussions.- What is the difference between neo-Darwinism and epigenetics?.- The Okavango debate on bifurcation.- List of contributors.- Scientific and subject index.