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  title info:
    title: Mechanisms of Life History Evolution
    sub title: the Genetics and Physiology of Life History Traits and Trade-Offs
  name:
    name part: Flatt, Thomas
    name part: 1972-
  name:
    name part: Heyland, Andreas.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    place:
      place term: Oxford
    place:
      place term: New York
    publisher: Oxford University Press
    date issued: ©2011
    date issued: 2011
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xxv, 478 pages) : illustrations
  abstract: "Life history theory seeks to explain the evolution of the major features of life cycles by analyzing the ecological factors that shape age-specific schedules of growth, reproduction, and survival and by investigating the trade-offs that constrain the evolution of these traits. Although life history theory has made enormous progress in explaining the diversity of life history strategies among species, it traditionally ignores the underlying proximate mechanisms. This novel book argues that many fundamental problems in life history evolution, including the nature of trade-offs, can only be fully resolved if we begin to integrate information on developmental, physiological, and genetic mechanisms into the classical life history framework. Each chapter is written by an established or up-and-coming leader in their respective field; they not only represent the state of the art but also offer fresh perspectives for future research. The text is divided into 7 sections that cover basic concepts (Part 1), the mechanisms that affect different parts of the life cycle (growth, development, and maturation; reproduction; and aging and somatic maintenance) (Parts 2-4), life history plasticity (Part 5), life history integration and trade-offs (Part 6), and concludes with a synthesis chapter written by a prominent leader in the field and an editorial postscript (Part 7)."--Provided by publisher.
  table of contents: Integrating mechanistic and evolutionary analysis of life history variation / Christian Braendle, Andreas Heyland, and Thomas Flatt -- Genomic insights into life history evolution / Derek A. Roff -- Emerging patterns in the regulation and evolution of marine invertebrate settlement and metamorphosis / Andreas Heyland, Adam M. Reitzel, and Sandie Degnan -- Evolution and the regulation of growth and body size / Alexander W. Shingleton -- The genetic and endocrine basis for the evolution of metamorphosis in insects / Deniz F. Erezylimaz -- Thyroidal regulation of life history transitions in fish / Richard G. Manzon -- Hormone regulation and the evolution of frog metamorphic diversity / Daniel Buchholz [and others] -- Asexual reproduction in cnidaria: comparative developmental processes and candidate mechanisms / Adam M. Reitzel, Derek Stefanik, and John R. Finnerty -- The genetics and evolution of flowering time variation in plants: identifying genes that control a key life history transition / Joshua A. Banta and Michael D. Purugganan.
  table of contents: Mechanisms of nutrient dependent reproduction in dipteran insects / Alan O. Bergland -- Mechanisms underlying reproductive trade-offs: costs of reproduction / Dominic A. Edward and Tracey Chapman -- Patterns and processes of human life history evolution / Michael P. Muehlenbein and Mark V. Flinn -- Parallels in understanding the endocrine control of lifespan with the firebug Pyrrhocoris apterus and the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster / Magdalena Hodkova and Marc Tatar -- The genetics of dietary modulation of lifespan / Johannes H. Bauer and Stephen L. Helfand -- Molecular stress pathways and the evolution of life histories in reptiles / Tonia S. Schwartz and Anne M. Bronikowski -- Mechanisms of aging in human populations / Maris Kuningas and Rudi G.J. Westendorp -- Mechanisms underlying feeding-structure plasticity in echinoderm larvae / Benjamin G. Miner.
  table of contents: Evolution and mechanisms of insect reproductive diapause, a plastic and pleiotropic life history syndrome / Paul S. Schmidt -- Seasonal polyphenisms and environmentally-induced plasticity in the Lepidoptera -- the coordinated evolution of many traits on multiple levels / Paul M. Brakefield and Bas J. Zwaan -- Honey bee life history plasticity -- development, behavior, and aging / Brenda Rascón [and others] -- Molecular mechanisms of life history trade-offs and the evolution of multicellular complexity in volvocalean green algae / Aurora M. Nedelcu and Richard E. Michod -- Molecular basis of life history regulation in C. elegans and other organisms / Birgit Gerisch and Adam Antebi -- The costs of immunity and the evolution of immunological defense mechanisms / Kurt A. McKean and Brian P. Lazzaro.
  table of contents: Intermediary metabolism and the biochemical-molecular basis of life history variation and trade-offs in two insect models / Anthony J. Zera and Lawrence G. Harshman -- Epistatic social and endocrine networks and the evolution of life history trade-offs and plasticity / Lesley T. Lancaster and Barry Sinervo -- Hormonally-regulated trade-offs: evolutionary variability and phenotypic plasticity in testosterone signaling pathways / Michaela Hau and John C. Wingfield -- Does impressive progress on understanding mechanisms advance life history theory? / Stephen C. Stearns -- What mechanistic insights can or cannot contribute to life history evolution -- an exchange between Stearns, Heyland, and Flatt / Thomas Flatt, Andreas Heyland, and Stephen C. Stearns.
  note: edited by Thomas Flatt, Andreas Heyland.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 380-468) and index.
  note: English.
  subject:
    topic: Life cycles (Biology)
  subject:
    topic: Evolutionary genetics
  subject:
    topic: Evolution (Biology)
  subject:
    topic: Adaptation (Physiology)
  subject:
    topic: Biological Evolution
  subject:
    topic: Adaptation, Physiological
  subject:
    topic: Cycles biologiques
  subject:
    topic: Génétique évolutive
  subject:
    topic: Évolution (Biologie)
  subject:
    topic: Adaptation (Physiologie)
  subject:
    topic: evolution
  subject:
    topic: SCIENCE
    topic: Life Sciences
    topic: Developmental Biology
  subject:
    topic: Evolutionary genetics
  subject:
    topic: Life cycles (Biology)
  classification: QH501 .M43 2011eb
  classification: 571.8
  classification: QH 501 M43 2011eb
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    language of cataloging:
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