Robustness, Plasticity, and Evolvability in Mammals A Thermal Niche Approach /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Jones, Clara B. (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Σειρά: SpringerBriefs in Evolutionary Biology,
• Θέματα: Life sciences.; Developmental biology.; Animal ecology.; Biodiversity.; Evolutionary biology.; Animal genetics.; Animal physiology.; Life Sciences.; Evolutionary Biology.; Animal Ecology.; Developmental Biology.; Animal Genetics and Genomics.; Animal Physiology.

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 bi...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.