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  title info:
    title: Robustness, Plasticity, and Evolvability in Mammals
    sub title: A Thermal Niche Approach
  name:
    name part: Jones, Clara B.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxu
    date issued: 2012
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIII, 108 p. 14 illus., 5 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: Among the unresolved topics in evolutionary biology and behavioral ecology are the origins, mechanisms, evolution, and consequences of developmental and phenotypic diversity. In an attempt to address these challenges, plasticity has been investigated empirically and theoretically at all levels of biological organization—from biochemical to whole organism and beyond to the population, community, and ecosystem levels. Less commonly explored are constraints (e.g., ecological), costs (e.g., increased response error), perturbations (e.g., alterations in selection intensity), and stressors (e.g., resource limitation) influencing not only selective values of heritable phenotypic components but, also, decisions and choices (not necessarily conscious ones) available to individuals in populations. Treating extant mammals, the primary purpose of the proposed work is to provide new perspectives on common themes in the literature on robustness (“functional diversity”; differential resistance to “deconstraint” of conserved elements) and weak robustness (the potential to restrict plasticity and evolvability), plasticity (variation expressed throughout the lifetimes of individuals in a population setting “evolvability potential”), and evolvability (non-lethal phenotypic novelties induced by endogenous and/or exogenous stimuli). The proposed project will place particular emphasis upon the adaptive complex in relation to endogenous (e.g., genomes, neurophysiology) and exogenous (abiotic and biotic, including social environments) organismal features discussed as regulatory and environmental perturbations with the potential to induce, and, often, constrain variability and novelty of form and function.
  table of contents: 1. Introduction: What paths to mean reproductive success of individuals and shifting mean fitness of mammalian populations? -- 2. Mammals: From humble vertebrate beginnings to global terrestrial dominance -- 3. Variability of mammalian thermal niches: Differential effects of local and global environmental heterogeneity -- 4. Robustness and polyphenisms in mammals: ?Core processes?, repatterning, ?constrained variation?, and ?regulatory logic? -- 5. Learning may generate phenotypic variability in heterogeneous regimes -- 6. Discussion: Stimulus ? Response ? Stimulus -- 7. Synopsis -- References.
  note: by Clara B. Jones.
  subject:
    topic: Life sciences
  subject:
    topic: Developmental biology
  subject:
    topic: Animal ecology
  subject:
    topic: Biodiversity
  subject:
    topic: Evolutionary biology
  subject:
    topic: Animal genetics
  subject:
    topic: Animal physiology
  subject:
    topic: Life Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Evolutionary Biology
  subject:
    topic: Animal Ecology
  subject:
    topic: Developmental Biology
  subject:
    topic: Animal Genetics and Genomics
  subject:
    topic: Animal Physiology
  subject:
    topic: Biodiversity
  classification: QH359-425
  classification: 576.8
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      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: SpringerBriefs in Evolutionary Biology
  identifier: 9781461438854
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3885-4
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    record creation date: 120606
    record change date: 20151204155849.0
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