The Evolution of Anisogamy

A Fundamental Phenomenon Underlying Sexual Selection
Herausgeber: Togashi, Tatsuya; Cox, Paul Alan

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The first book on the evolution of anisogamy: top theorists explore why gamete dimorphism characterizes nearly all plants and animals.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780521880954
• ISBN-10: 0521880955
• Artikelnr.: 32813194

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Paul Alan Cox; 1. The origin and maintenance of two sexes
(anisogamy), and their gamete sizes by gamete competition Geoff A. Parker;
2. The evolutionary instability of isogamy Hiroyuki Matsuda and Peter A.
Abrams; 3. Contact, not conflict, causes the evolution of anisogamy Joan
Roughgarden and Priya Iyer; 4. Nucleo-cytoplasmic conflict and the
evolution of gamete dimorphism Rolf F. Hoekstra; 5. Adaptive significance
of egg size variation of aquatic organisms in relation to mesoscale
features of aquatic environments Kinya Nishimura and Noboru Hoshino; 6.
Gamete encounters David B. Dusenbery; 7. Evolution of anisogamy and related
phenomena in marine green algae Tatsuya Togashi and John L. Bartelt; Index.