Phenotypic Integration: Studying the Ecology and Evolution of Complex Phenotypes

✍ Scribed by Massimo Pigliucci, Katherine Preston

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Year: 2004
Tongue: English
Leaves: 460
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 6
Contributors......Page 9
Introduction......Page 12
1. The Diversity of Complexity......Page 20
Part I: Adaptation and Constraints......Page 36
2. Floral Integration, Modularity, and Accuracy: Distinguishing Complex Adaptations from Genetic Constraints......Page 40
3. Integration and Modularity in the Evolution of Sexual Ornaments: An Overlooked Perspective......Page 67
4. The Evolution of Allometry in Modular Organisms......Page 97
5. Phenotypic Integration as a Constraint and Adaptation......Page 124
6. Evolvability, Stabilizing Selection, and the Problem of Stasis......Page 147
7. Studying the Plasticity of Phenotypic Integration in a Model Organism......Page 172
8. Integrating Phenotypic Plasticity When Death Is on the Line: Insights from Predator–Prey Systems......Page 193
9. QTL Mapping: A First Step Toward an Understanding of Molecular Genetic Mechanisms Behind Phenotypic Complexity/Integration......Page 212
10. Integration, Modules, and Development: Molecules to Morphology to Evolution......Page 230
11. Studying Mutational Effects on G-Matrices......Page 248
12. The Macroevolution of Phenotypic Integration......Page 270
13. Form, Function, and Life History: Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Integration......Page 291
14. Morphological Integration in Primate Evolution......Page 319
15. Phylogenetic Comparative Analysis of Multivariate Data......Page 342
16. The Evolution of Genetic Architecture......Page 362
17. Multivariate Phenotypic Evolution in Developmental Hyperspace......Page 383
18. The Relativism of Constraints on Phenotypic Evolution......Page 407
19. The Developmental Systems Perspective: Organism–Environment Systems as Units of Development and Evolution......Page 426
Conclusion......Page 449
B......Page 454
C......Page 455
F......Page 456
M......Page 457
P......Page 458
S......Page 459
Z......Page 460

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