Phenotypic integration studying the ecology and evolution of complex phenotypes / edited by Massimo Pigliucci, Katherine Preston.

Other author Pigliucci, Massimo, 1964-
Other author Preston, Katherine (Katherine A.)
Format Electronic
Publication InfoOxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,
Descriptionxv, 443 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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Contents The diversity of complexity / Carl Schlichting -- Floral integration, modularity, and accuracy : distinguishing complex adaptations from genetic constraints / W. Scott Armbruster ... [et al.] -- Integration and modularity in the evolution of sexual ornaments : an overlooked perspective / Alexander V. Badyaev -- The evolution of allometry in modular organisms / Katherine A. Preston and David D. Ackerly -- Phenotypic integration as a constraint and adaptation / Juha Merilä and Mats Björklund -- Evolvability, stabilizing selection, and the problem of stasis / Thomas F. Hansen and David Houle -- Studying the plasticity of phenotypic integration in a model organism / Massimo Pigliucci -- Integrating phenotypic plasticity when death is on the line : insights from predator-prey systems / Rick A. Relyea -- QTL mapping : a first step toward an understanding of molecular genetic mechanisms behind phenotypic complexity/integration / Courtney J. Murren and Paula X. Kover -- Integration, modules, and development : molecules to morphology to evolution / Christian Peter Klingenberg -- Studying mutational effects on G-matrices / Massimo Pigliucci -- The macroevolution of phenotypic integration / Gunther J. Eble -- Form, function, and life history : spatial and temporal dynamics of integration / Miriam Leah Zelditch and Rosa A. Moscarella -- Morphological integration in primate evolution / Rebecca Rogers Ackermann and James M. Cheverud -- Phylogenetic comparative analysis of multivariate data / Scott J. Steppan -- The evolution of genetic architecture / Derek Roff -- Multivariate phenotypic evolution in developmental hyperspace / Jason B. Wolf, Cerisse E. Allen and W. Anthony Frankino --
Contents The relativism of constraints on phenotypic evolution / Kurt Schwenk and Günter P. Wagner -- The developmental systems perspective : organism-environment systems as units of development and evolution / Paul E. Griffiths and Russell D. Gray.
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LCCN 2003002295
ISBN9780195160437 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0195160436 (cloth : alk. paper)