Development Strategies and Biodiversity

Part I. Evolutionary Meaning of Development: How and Why Early Life Experience Generate Diversity .- Chapter 1. More than Fifty Shades of Epigenetics for the Study of Early in Life Effects in Medicine, Ecology and Evolution.- Chapter 2. For Better or Worse: Benefits and Costs of Transgenerational Plasticity and the Transhormesis Hypothesis.- Chapter 3. Adaptive Meaning of Early Life Experience in Species that Go Through Metamorphosis.- Part II. Endogenous Mechanisms Underlying the Interactions Between the Individual and Its Early-Life Environment .- Chapter 4. Early-Life Stress Drives the Molecular Mechanisms Shaping the Adult Phenotype.- Chapter 5. Environmental Conditions in Early Life, Host Defenses and Disease in Late Life.- Chapter 6. Early Life Nutrition and the Programming of the Phenotype.- Part III. Anthropocene Opens New Horizons to Reveal the Adaptive Meaning of Developmental Plasticity.- Chapter 7. Adaptive and Maladaptive Consequences of LarvalStressors for Metamorphic and Postmetamorphic Traits and Fitness.- Chapter 8. Plastic Aliens: Developmental Plasticity and the Spread of Invasive Species.- Chapter 9. Consequences of Developmental Exposure to Pollution: Importance of Stress-Coping Mechanisms.