Developmental Instability: Its Origins and Evolutionary Implications

Editorial overview.- Null alleles at two lactate dehydrogenase loci in rainbow trout are associated with decreased developmental stability.- The genetic basis of developmental stability. I. Relationships between stability, heterozygosity and genomic coadaptation.- Does homozygosity contribute to the asymmetry of common white leg markings in the Arabian horse?.- Associative overdominance: evaluating the effects of inbreeding and linkage disequilibrium.- Enzyme heterozygosity, metabolism, and developmental stability.- Modification of developmental instability and fitness: malathionresistance in the Australian sheep blowfly, Lucilia cuprina.- Nonlinear growth dynamics and the origin of fluctuating asymmetry.- Developmental stability in plants: symmetries, stress and epigenesis.- Antisymmetry, directional asymmetry, and dynamic morphogenesis.- Morphological integration of fluctuating asymmetry in the mouse mandible.- Relationship between fluctuating asymmetry, morphological modality and heterozygosity in an elderly Israeli population.- Shaping intraspecific variation: development, ecology and the evolution of morphology and life history variation in tiger salamanders.- Persistence of subtle departures from symmetry over multiple molts in individual brachyuran crabs: relevance to developmental stability.- Bilateral variation and the evolutionary origin of macroscopic asymmetries.- Evolution developmental instability and the theory of acquisition.- Appearance fixation and stabilisation of environmentally induced phenotypic changes as a microevolutionary event.- Parental age and developmental stability in Drosophila melanogaster.- Developmental variability and the limits of adaptation: interactions with stress.- Parasites increase fluctuating asymmetry of male Drosophila nigrospiracula: implications for sexual selection.- Fluctuating asymmetry and sexual selection.- Developmental origins of variation in human hand preference.- Behavioral phenodeviance: a Lerneresque conjecture.- Minor anomalies: diagnostic clues to aberrant human morphogenesis.- Developmental instability and fluctuating asymmetry in man.- Fluctuating asymmetry analyses: a primer.- Session 1 Measuring developmental instability, Moderator.- Session 2 Developmental genetic origins, Moderator.- Session 3 Human health and phenotypic variation, Moderator.- Session 4 Population biology and conservation, Moderator.- List of conference participants.