Insect Life Cycles
Springer Berlin (Hersteller)
978-3-540-19550-4 (ISBN)
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The International Congress of Entomology holds symposia on insect life-cycles every four years. This book arose from papers contributed by most of the speakers at the latest symposium held in Vancouver, Canada, in July 1988. It provides a diverse array of studies on insect life-cycle evolution which can be broken down into three main levels of approach: comparisons of genetic variation and covariation underlying life-cycle traits; comparisons of variable phenotypes within and among populations of the same and/or related species; and comparisons of habitat-specific traits regardless of relatedness.
Part 1 Genetics of life-cycle traits: evolution of insect life-cycles; the role of genetic analysis. Part 2 Evolution of life-cycle traits: use of selection to probe patterns of pleiotropy in fitness characters; phenology and demography in the pitcher-plant mosquito; developmental programmes and adaptive syndromes in insect life-cycles; coevolution between herbivorous insects and plants; size phylogeny and life-history in the evolution of feeding specialization in insect predators; opportunistic diapause in the subtropical ground cricket; evolution of mutualistic life cycles - yucca moths and fig wasps; testing hypotheses about the evolution of the mean phenotype in temporarily variable environments. Part 3 Co-ordination of life-cycle traits: insect herbivores; herbivory and plant succession; migration and co-ordination of life-cycles exemplified by lygaeidae bugs; competition and selection in habitat - the implications for insect life-cycles; facultative and obligatory diapause responses in three species of Burnet moths; the present and future of insect life-cycle evolution.
| Zusatzinfo | 91 figs. |
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| Verlagsort | Berlin |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Gewicht | 635 g |
| Einbandart | gebunden |
| Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie |
| ISBN-10 | 3-540-19550-5 / 3540195505 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-3-540-19550-4 / 9783540195504 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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