Transitions Between Sexual Systems (eBook)

Understanding the Mechanisms of, and Pathways Between, Dioecy, Hermaphroditism and Other Sexual Systems

Janet L. Leonard (Herausgeber)

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2019 | 1. Auflage
XII, 363 Seiten
Springer-Verlag
978-3-319-94139-4 (ISBN)

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This book focuses on explaining the distribution of sexual systems (simultaneous hermaphroditism, sequential hermaphroditism, environmental sex determination,dioecy, androdioecy, etc.) among taxa, which remains a major challenge in evolutionary biology.  Although significant advances have been made for angiosperms, there is not yet a theory that predicts the sexual system for the majority of animal taxa, and other taxa of plants also remain poorly understood. 

The problem, particularly for animals, is that sexual systems can be very conservative, with whole phyla and classes being characterized by  a single sexual system; for example essentially the whole phylum Platyhelminthes is simultaneously hermaphroditic, whereas the Insecta (Hexapoda) and the Tetrapoda  among the vertebrates, are exclusively dioecious. Sex allocation theory on the other hand, suggests that sexual systems should be highly responsive to evolution, changing with population density, life span, patterns of resource availability, etc.  The book provides an overview of the topic and then presents a series of chapters, each dealing with a taxon with substantial lability in sexual system in order to identify the factors associated with changes in sexual system in each case. By doing so, the authors reveal factors that have not been considered in formal theory but seem to have a major impact on transitions between sexual systems.

This book appeals to a wide readership in fields from zoology and evolutionary biology to botany.



Janet L. Leonard is a Research Associate with the Institute of Marine Sciences, University of California-Santa Cruz and a Fellow of the California Academy of Sciences. She received her Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, served as an Instructor at the University of Maine-Orono, and was a postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada and at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography of the University of California-San Diego; followed by faculty appointments at the University of Oklahoma and at the Mark O. Hatfield Marine Science Center of Oregon State University. She has been a Visiting Erskine Fellow at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, and President of the Western Society of Malacologists. Her research interests are in animal behavior, sexual selection, and invertebrate biology.
Erscheint lt. Verlag 21.5.2019
Zusatzinfo XII, 363 p. 62 illus., 30 illus. in color.
Sprache englisch
Themenwelt Naturwissenschaften Biologie
Schlagworte Dioecy • Diversity of Sexual Systems • Environmental Sex Determination • Hermaphroditism • Sex Determination • Williams’ Paradox
ISBN-10 3-319-94139-9 / 3319941399
ISBN-13 978-3-319-94139-4 / 9783319941394
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