Overview

A new voice in the nature-nurture debate can be heard at the interface between evolution and development. Phenotypic integration--or, how large numbers of characteristics are related to make up the whole organism, and how these relationships evolve and change their function--is a major growth area in research, attracting the attention of evolutionary biologists, developmental biologists, and geneticists, as well as, more broadly, ecologists, physiologists, and paleontologists. This edited collection presents much of the best and most recent work the topic.

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Author:   Massimo Pigliucci (Professor of Ecology and Evolution; Department of Botany, Professor of Ecology and Evolution; Department of Botany, SUNY Stony Brook) ,  Katherine Preston (Department of Biological Science, Department of Biological Science, Stanford University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 16.20cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 24.20cm
Weight:   0.749kg
ISBN:  

9780195160437

ISBN 10:   0195160436
Pages:   460
Publication Date:   17 June 2004
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Carl Schlichting: Foreword: The diversity of complexity Phenotypic Integration: Studying the Ecology and Evolution of Complex Phenotypes Section I: Adaptation and constraints 1: W. Scott Armbruster, Christophe Pelabon, Thomas F. Hansen, and Christa P. H. Mulder: Floral integration, modularity, and accuracy: distinguishing complex adaptations from genetic constraints 2: Alexander V. Badyaev: Integration and modularity in the evolution of sexual ornaments: An overlooked perspective 3: Katherine A. Preston and David D. Ackerly: the Evolution of allometry in modular organisms 4: Juha Merila and Mats Bjoerklund: Phenotypic integration as a constraint and adaptation 5: Thomas F. Hansen and David Houlehe: Evolvability, stabilizing selection, and the problem of stasis Section II: Phenotypic plasticity and integration 6: Massimo Pigliucci: Studying the plasticity of phenotypic integration in a model organism 7: Rick A. Relyea: Integrating phenotypic plasticity when death is on the line: Insights from predator-prey systems Section III: Genetics and molecular biology of phenotypic integration 8: Courtney J. Murren and Paula X. Kover: QTL Mapping: a first step towards an understanding of molecular genetic mechanisms behind phenotypic complexity/integration 9: Christian Peter Klingenberg: Integration, modules, and development: molecules to morphology to evolution 10: Massimo Pigliucci: Studying mutational effects on G-matrices Section IV: Macroevolutionary patterns in phenotypic integration 11: Gunther J. Eble: the Macroevolution of phenotypic integration 12: Miriam Leah Zelditch and Rosa A. Moscarella: Form, Function and Life-History: Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Integration 13: Rebecca Rogers Ackermann and James M. Cheverud: Morphological Integration in Primate Evolution Section V: Theory and analysis of phenotypic integration 14: Scott J. Steppan: Phylogenetic comparative analysis of multivariate data 15: Derek Roff: The Evolution of genetic architecture 16: Jason B. Wolf, Cerisse E. Allen and W. Anthony Frankino: Multivariate phenotypic evolution in developmental hyperspace 17: Kurt Schwenk and Gunter P. Wagner: the Relativism of constraints on phenotypic evolution 18: Paul E. Griffiths, and Russell D. Gray: The Developmental Systems Perspective: Organism-environment systems as units of development and evolution Conclusion

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