Maternal Effects as Adaptations
Published on 23. July 1998
Book
Hardback
400 pages
978-0-19-511163-7 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
numerous line figures
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 26 mm
Weight
752 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-511163-7 (9780195111637)
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Other editions
Additional editions
Timothy A. Mousseau | Charles W. Fox
Maternal Effects As Adaptations
E-Book
06/1998
1st Edition
OUP eBook
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Persons
Editor
Associate Professor, Department of Biological SciencesAssociate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, University of South Carolina, Columbia, USA
Assistant ProfessorThe Louis Calder Center, Biological Field StationAssistant ProfessorThe Louis Calder Center, Biological Field Station, Fordham University
Content
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