Phenotypic Integration: Studying the Ecology and Evolution of Complex Phenotypes

by Massimo Pigliucci, Katherine Preston

Overview

A new voice in the nature-nurture debate can be heard at the interface between evolution and development. Phenotypic integration—or, how large numbers of characteristics are related to make up the whole organism, and how these relationships evolve and change their function—is a major growth area in research, attracting the attention of evolutionary biologists, developmental biologists, and geneticists, as well as, more broadly, ecologists, physiologists, and paleontologists. This edited collection presents much of the best and most recent work the topic.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780195160437
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	04/01/2004
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	464
Product dimensions:	9.30(w) x 6.30(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

SUNY Stony Brook

Stanford University

Table of Contents

Foreword: The diversity of complexity, Carl SchlichtingPhenotypic Integration: Studying the Ecology and Evolution of Complex PhenotypesSection I: Adaptation and constraints1. Floral integration, modularity, and accuracy: distinguishing complex adaptations from genetic constraints, W. Scott Armbruster, Christophe Pélabon, Thomas F. Hansen, and Christa P. H. Mulder2. Integration and modularity in the evolution of sexual ornaments: An overlooked perspective, Alexander V. Badyaev3. the Evolution of allometry in modular organisms, Katherine A. Preston and David D. Ackerly4. Phenotypic integration as a constraint and adaptation, Juha Merilä and Mats Björklund5. Evolvability, stabilizing selection, and the problem of stasis, Thomas F. Hansen and David HouleheSection II: Phenotypic plasticity and integration6. Studying the plasticity of phenotypic integration in a model organism, Massimo Pigliucci7. Integrating phenotypic plasticity when death is on the line: Insights from predator-prey systems, Rick A. RelyeaSection III: Genetics and molecular biology of phenotypic integration8. QTL Mapping: a first step towards an understanding of molecular genetic mechanisms behind phenotypic complexity/integration, Courtney J. Murren and Paula X. Kover9. Integration, modules, and development: molecules to morphology to evolution, Christian Peter Klingenberg10. Studying mutational effects on G-matrices, Massimo PigliucciSection IV: Macroevolutionary patterns in phenotypic integration11. the Macroevolution of phenotypic integration, Gunther J. Eble12. Form, Function and Life-History: Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Integration, Miriam Leah Zelditch and Rosa A. Moscarella13. Morphological Integration in Primate Evolution, Rebecca Rogers Ackermann and James M. CheverudSection V: Theory and analysis of phenotypic integration14. Phylogenetic comparative analysis of multivariate data, Scott J. Steppan15. The Evolution of genetic architecture, Derek Roff16. Multivariate phenotypic evolution in developmental hyperspace, Jason B. Wolf, Cerisse E. Allen and W. Anthony Frankino17. the Relativism of constraints on phenotypic evolution, Kurt Schwenk and Günter P. Wagner18. The Developmental Systems Perspective: Organism-environment systems as units of development and evolution, Paul E. Griffiths, and Russell D. GrayConclusion