Phenotypic Plasticity of Insects: Mechanisms and Consequences

ISBN-13: 9781578084234 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 904 str.

Whitman, Douglas

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Explores the importance of phenotypic plasticity as a central organizing theme for understanding biology. This work explains how physical and biological environmental stimuli, influence insect biochemical, physiological, learning, and developmental process

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What is Phenotypic Plasticity and Why is it Important?; Phenotypic Plasticity and the Semantics of Polythenism: A Historical Review and Current Perspectives; Phenotypic Plasticity and the Origins of Diversity: A Case Study on Horned Beetles; Developmental Flexibility, Phenotypic Plasticity, and Host Plants: A Case Study with Nemoria Caterpillars; Phase Polyphenism in Locusts: Mechanisms, Population, Consequences, Adaptive Significance and Evolution; Density-Dependent Prophylaxis in Insects; Natural Enemy-Induced Plasticity in Plants and Animals; A Behaviorally Plasticity Response to Risk of Predation: Oviposition Site Selection by a Mosquito in Response to its Predators; Polyphenisms in Lepidoptera: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Studies of Evolution and Development; Causes and Consequences of Phenotypic Plasticity in Body Size: The Case of the Yellow Dung Fly Scathophaga stercoraria (Diptera: Scathophagidae; She Shapes Events as they Come: Plasticity in Female Insect Reproduction; Temperature Dependence of Development Rate, Growth Rate and Size: From Biophysics to Adaptation; The Developmental-Physiological Basis of Phenotypic Plasticity; Wing Polymorphism in Gryllus (Orthoptera: Gryllidae) Proximate Endocrine, Energetic and Biochemical Mechanisms Underlying Morph Specialization for Flight vs. Reproduction; Evolution of Homeostatic Physiological Systems; Acclimation as Adaptive Phenotypic Plasticity; Heat Shock Proteins and their Role in Generating, Maintaining and Even Preventing Alternative Insect Phenotypes; Learned Host Preferences; Adaptive Maternal Effects: A Case Study of Egg Size Plasticity in a Seed-Feeding Bettle; On the Origins of Insect Hormone Signaling; Phenotypic Plasticity and Evolvability: An Empirical Test with Experimental Evolution

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Douglas Whitman