Development and Environment (eBook)

Dr. Warren Burggren, University of North Texas, Denton, TX Dr. Ben Dubansky, University of North Texas, Denton, TX

Introduction.- Current Trends and Perspectives in Environmental Developmental Physiology.- Experimental Approaches.- Section Introduction.- The Opportunities and Limitations of Laboratory versus Field Approaches.- Adverse Outcome Pathways and Systems Integration.- Multivariate Experimental Designs in Environmental Developmental Physiology.- Emerging Data Bases and Data Management Plans.- Case Study: Research Consortia and the Art of Collaboration.- Multiple environmental stressors, their interactions and the complex responses they evoke.- Section Introduction.- Multiple Stressor Interactions.- Multiple System Interactions.- Integrated Responses from the Molecular to the Population Level.- Case Study: Developmental Physiology at High Altitude.- Plasticity in developmental time and space.- Section Introduction.- Active and Passive Responses to the Environment in Developing Animals: Costs and Benefits.- Epigenetics in Environmental Developmental Physiology.- Developmental Windows.- Developmental Plasticity and Heterokairy.- Case Study: Larval Development in Fishes.