Insect Life Cycles

Genetics, Evolution and Co-ordination

Buch | Softcover

258 Seiten

2012 | Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1990
Springer London Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-4471-3466-4 (ISBN)

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No International Congress of Entomology would now be complete without a symposium on insect life-cycles. The latest Congress, held at Vancouver, BC (Canada), in July 1988, was no exception, with a symposium on the genetics, evolution, and coordination of insect life cycles organized by Bill Bradshaw and Valerie Brown. The present volume arose from papers contributed by most of the speakers at the symposium, together with papers from other invited authors. In editing the book, I have been assisted greatly by the other authors, particularly Bill Bradshaw, Val Brown and Fritz Taylor. All contributors agreed to referee two other chapters, a system that worked efficiently and effectively: I thank all authors for performing this task in the face of other demands on their time. I would also like to thank Philip Corbet, John Greenslade, Bryan Clarke, and Gillian Thompson of Springer for their help. Nottingham Francis Gilbert January 1990 Contents List of Contributors ....................................................... xiii SECTION I. Genetics of Life-Cycle Traits Introduction William E. Bradshaw ................................................. 3 1 Understanding the Evolution of Insect Life-Cycles: The Role of Genetic Analysis.

Section I. Genetics of Life-Cycle Traits.- 1 Understanding the Evolution of Insect Life-Cycles: The Role of Genetic Analysis.- 2 The Use of Selection to Probe Patterns of Pleiotropy in Fitness Characters.- Section II. Evolution of Life-Cycle Traits.- 3 Evolution of Phenology and Demography in the Pitcher-Plant Mosquito, Wyeomyia smithii.- 4 Developmental Programmes and Adaptive Syndromes in Insect Life-Cycles.- 5 Coevolution Between Herbivorous Insects and Plants: Tempo and Orchestration.- 6 Size, Phylogeny, and Life-History in the Evolution of Feeding Specialization in Insect Predators.- 7 Opportunistic Diapause in the Subtropical Ground Cricket, Dianemobius fascipes.- 8 Evolution of Mutualistic Life-Cycles: Yucca Moths and Fig Wasps.- 9 Testing Hypotheses About the Evolution of the Mean Phenotype in Temporally Variable Environments Fritz Taylor.- Section III. Coordination of Life-Cycle Traits.- 10 Insect Herbivores, Herbivory and Plant Succession Valerie K. Brown.- 11 Migration and the Coordination of Life-Cycles as Exemplified by Lygaeinae Bugs.- 12 Competition and Selection in a Patchy and Ephemeral Habitat: The Implications for Insect Life-Cycles.- 13 Facultative and Obligatory Diapause Responses in Three Species of Burnet Moth: A Characterization of Life-Cycle Phenologies by Field Observations and Laboratory Experiments.- 14 The Present and Future of Insect Life-Cycle Evolution.- Species Index.

Zusatzinfo	107 Illustrations, black and white; XIV, 258 p. 107 illus.
Verlagsort	England
Sprache	englisch
Maße	170 x 244 mm
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Botanik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zellbiologie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie
ISBN-10	1-4471-3466-4 / 1447134664
ISBN-13	978-1-4471-3466-4 / 9781447134664
Zustand	Neuware