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Author:   Timothy A. Mousseau (Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, University of South Carolina, Columbia, USA) ,  Charles W. Fox (Assistant ProfessorThe Louis Calder Center, Biological Field Station, Assistant ProfessorThe Louis Calder Center, Biological Field Station, Fordham University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.60cm
Weight:   0.703kg
ISBN:  

9780195111637

ISBN 10:   019511163
Pages:   400
Publication Date:   23 July 1998
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Part I. Conceptual Issues 1: Michael J. Wade: The Evolutionary Genetics of Maternal Effects 2: Allen J. Moore, Jason B. Wolf, and Edmund D. Brodie III: The Influence of Direct and Indirect Genetic Effects on the Evolution of Behavior: Social and Sexual Selection Meet Maternal Effects 3: Lev R. Ginzburg: Inertial Growth: Population Dynamics Based on Maternal Effects 4: Elizabeth P. Lacey: What Is an Adaptive Environmentally Induced Parental Effect 5: Bernard D. Roitberg: Oviposition Decisions as Maternal Effects: Conundrums and Opportunities for Conservation Biologists Part II. Assessment and Measurement 6: Derek A. Roff: The Detection and Measurement of Maternal Effects 7: Ruth G. Shaw & Diane L. Byers: Genetics of Maternal and Paternal Effects 8: MaryCarol Rossiter: The Role of Environmental Variation in Parental Effects Expression Part III. Reviews of Maternal Effects Expression 9: Kathleen Donohue & Johanna Schmitt: Maternal Environmental Effects in Plants: Adaptive Plasticity? 10: Charles W. Fox & Timothy A. Mousseau: Maternal Effects as Adaptations for Transgenerational Phenotypic Plasticity in Insects 11: Daniel D. Heath & D. Max Blouw: Are Maternal Effects in Fish Adaptive or Merely Physiological Side Effects? 12: Trevor Price: Maternal and Paternal Effects in Birds: Effects on Offspring Fitness 13: Frank J. Messina: Maternal Influences on Larval Competition in Insects 14: Robert H. Kaplan: Maternal Effects, Developmental Plasticity, and Life History Evolution: An Amphibian Model 15: Mertice M. Clark & Bennett F. Galef, Jr.: Perinatal Influences on the Reproductive Behavior of Adult Rodents Part IV. Case Studies of Maternal Effects 16: David L. Denlinger: Maternal Control of Fly Diapause 17: Barry Sinervo: Adaptation of Maternal Effects in the Wild: Path Analysis of Natural Variation and Experimental Tests of Causation 18: Willem M. Roosenburg & Peter Niewiarowski: Maternal Effects and the Maintenance of Environmental Sex Determination 19: Susan J. Mazer & Lorne M. Wolfe: Density-Mediated Maternal Effects on Seed Size in Wild Radish: Genetic Variation and Its Evolutionary Implications

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Its main message is that maternal effects may often have evolved as adaptations for life in heterogeneous environments. The nineteen chapters fall into four groups: theoretical and conceptual issues; assessing and measuring maternal effects; reviews of maternal effects in various taxa...; and specific case studies in four taxa... --Evolution<br> The volume edited by Mousseau & Fox is concerned with maternal adaptations, those mechanisms that mothers employ to enhance the fitness of their offspring; with maternal effects, parents contribute more than genes to the next generation. . . . The volume is organized into four parts: (1) recent theoretical developments; (2) assessment and measurement of maternal effects; (3) reviews of maternal effects across taxa; and (4) case studies of the adaptive significance of maternal effects. . . . [Maternal effects] blur the distinction between genetic and environmental components of phenotypic variation and present a range of challenges from conceptual formulation to experimental design and assessment. But, to paraphrase Feller (1971), challenges are not overcome by ignoring them. This excellent volume will allow us both to face the challenges raised by maternal effects and to overcome these challenges, into an even more advanced understanding of adaptation. --Animal Behaviour<br> Occasionally there is a multiauthored book that is inspiring enough to revive the interest of evolutionary biologists in some unduly neglected concept. . . . The present book may do [that] for maternal effects. . . . This book challenges us to expand our view of selection and adaptation to include the cross-generational extended phenotypes of parents expressed intheir offspring . . . The authors discuss species in which parents choose oviposition sites, incubate eggs, care for or educate their young, and where eggs contain, in addition to nutrients, hormones, antibodies, mRNA, and photoperiod-induced cues. . . . This volume is a high-quality contribution to the literature on phenotypic plasticity, selection and adaptation, and development as an aspect of natural history and evolution. Perhaps the most important message it contains is clear evidence for the role of environmental factors in structuring development from its earliest inception. --The Quarterly Review of Biology<br>

<br> Its main message is that maternal effects may often have evolved as adaptations for life in heterogeneous environments. The nineteen chapters fall into four groups: theoretical and conceptual issues; assessing and measuring maternal effects; reviews of maternal effects in various taxa...; and specific case studies in four taxa... --Evolution<br> The volume edited by Mousseau & Fox is concerned with maternal adaptations, those mechanisms that mothers employ to enhance the fitness of their offspring; with maternal effects, parents contribute more than genes to the next generation. . . . The volume is organized into four parts: (1) recent theoretical developments; (2) assessment and measurement of maternal effects; (3) reviews of maternal effects across taxa; and (4) case studies of the adaptive significance of maternal effects. . . . [Maternal effects] blur the distinction between genetic and environmental components of phenotypic variation and present a range of challenges from co

Its main message is that maternal effects may often have evolved as adaptations for life in heterogeneous environments. The nineteen chapters fall into four groups: theoretical and conceptual issues; assessing and measuring maternal effects; reviews of maternal effects in various taxa...; and specific case studies in four taxa... --Evolution The volume edited by Mousseau & Fox is concerned with maternal adaptations, those mechanisms that mothers employ to enhance the fitness of their offspring; with maternal effects, parents contribute more than genes to the next generation. . . . The volume is organized into four parts: (1) recent theoretical developments; (2) assessment and measurement of maternal effects; (3) reviews of maternal effects across taxa; and (4) case studies of the adaptive significance of maternal effects. . . . [Maternal effects] blur the distinction between genetic and environmental components of phenotypic variation and present a range of challenges from conceptual formulation to experimental design and assessment. But, to paraphrase Feller (1971), challenges are not overcome by ignoring them. This excellent volume will allow us both to face the challenges raised by maternal effects and to overcome these challenges, into an even more advanced understanding of adaptation. --Animal Behaviour Occasionally there is a multiauthored book that is inspiring enough to revive the interest of evolutionary biologists in some unduly neglected concept. . . . The present book may do [that] for maternal effects. . . . This book challenges us to expand our view of selection and adaptation to include the cross-generational extended phenotypes of parents expressed in their offspring . . . The authors discuss species in which parents choose oviposition sites, incubate eggs, care for or educate their young, and where eggs contain, in addition to nutrients, hormones, antibodies, mRNA, and photoperiod-induced cues. . . . This volume is a high-quality

Its main message is that maternal effects may often have evolved as adaptations for life in heterogeneous environments. The nineteen chapters fall into four groups: theoretical and conceptual issues; assessing and measuring maternal effects; reviews of maternal effects in various taxa...; and specific case studies in four taxa... --Evolution The volume edited by Mousseau & Fox is concerned with maternal adaptations, those mechanisms that mothers employ to enhance the fitness of their offspring; with maternal effects, parents contribute more than genes to the next generation. . . . The volume is organized into four parts: (1) recent theoretical developments; (2) assessment and measurement of maternal effects; (3) reviews of maternal effects across taxa; and (4) case studies of the adaptive significance of maternal effects. . . . [Maternal effects] blur the distinction between genetic and environmental components of phenotypic variation and present a range of challenges from conceptual formulation to experimental design and assessment. But, to paraphrase Feller (1971), challenges are not overcome by ignoring them. This excellent volume will allow us both to face the challenges raised by maternal effects and to overcome these challenges, into an even more advanced understanding of adaptation. --Animal Behaviour Occasionally there is a multiauthored book that is inspiring enough to revive the interest of evolutionary biologists in some unduly neglected concept. . . . The present book may do [that] for maternal effects. . . . This book challenges us to expand our view of selection and adaptation to include the cross-generational extended phenotypes of parents expressed in their offspring . . . The authors discuss species in which parents choose oviposition sites, incubate eggs, care for or educate their young, and where eggs contain, in addition to nutrients, hormones, antibodies, mRNA, and photoperiod-induced cues. . . . This volume is a high-quality contribution to the literature on phenotypic plasticity, selection and adaptation, and development as an aspect of natural history and evolution. Perhaps the most important message it contains is clear evidence for the role of environmental factors in structuring development from its earliest inception. --The Quarterly Review of Biology Its main message is that maternal effects may often have evolved as adaptations for life in heterogeneous environments. The nineteen chapters fall into four groups: theoretical and conceptual issues; assessing and measuring maternal effects; reviews of maternal effects in various taxa...; and specific case studies in four taxa... --Evolution The volume edited by Mousseau & Fox is concerned with maternal adaptations, those mechanisms that mothers employ to enhance the fitness of their offspring; with maternal effects, parents contribute more than genes to the next generation. . . . The volume is organized into four parts: (1) recent theoretical developments; (2) assessment and measurement of maternal effects; (3) reviews of maternal effects across taxa; and (4) case studies of the adaptive significance of maternal effects. . . . [Maternal effects] blur the distinction between genetic and environmental components of phenotypic variation and present a range of challenges from conceptual formulation to experimental design and assessment. But, to paraphrase Feller (1971), challenges are not overcome by ignoring them. This excellent volume will allow us both to face the challenges raised by maternal effects and to overcome these challenges, into an even more advanced understanding of adaptation. --Animal Behaviour Occasionally there is a multiauthored book that is inspiring enough to revive the interest of evolutionary biologists in some unduly neglected concept. . . . The present book may do [that] for maternal effects. . . . This book challenges us to expand our view of selection and adaptation to include the cross-generational extended phenotypes of parents expressed in their offspring . . . The authors discuss species in which parents choose oviposition sites, incubate eggs, care for or educate their young, and where eggs contain, in addition to nutrients, hormones, antibodies, mRNA, and photoperiod-induced cues. . . . This volume is a high-quality contribution to the literature on phenotypic plasticity, selection and adaptation, and development as an aspect of natural history and evolution. Perhaps the most important message it contains is clear evidence for the role of environmental factors in structuring development from its earliest inception. --The Quarterly Review of Biology

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