Author: Stacy Kwong LiPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
Sexual Selection in the Three-spined Stickleback (Gasterosteus Aculeatus L.).
Author: Stacy Kwong LiBiology of the Three-Spined Stickleback
Author: Sara Ostlund-NilssonPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1420004832
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Highlighting the growing importance of the sticklebacks as a model species in emerging fields such as molecular genetics, genomics, and environmental toxicology, Biology of the Three-Spined Stickleback examines data from researchers who use studies of the stickleback to address a wide range of biological issues. This state-of-the-art volume
The Evolutionary Biology of the Threespine Stickleback
Author: Michael A. BellPublisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN: 9780198577287
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 571
Book Description
The threespine stickleback is a small fish of temperate coastal and fresh waters that exhibits extraordinary phenotypic diversity. Benefiting from its amenability to observation in the field and manipulation in the laboratory, Niko Tinbergen pioneered the threespine stickleback's use in behavioral studies and established it as a model system in ethology. This up-to-date volume incorporates reviews from active researchers who use studies of the fish to address a broad variety of evolutionary issues, including optimal foraging, armor variation, speciation, and the endocrine basis for correlated behavioral characters. The work demonstrates the value of viewing the biology of a single organism simultaneously from multiple perspectives. Students and researchers in ecology, evolution, animal behavior, and vertebrate zoology will find much of interest in this useful book.
The Biology of the Sticklebacks
Author: Robert J. WoottonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Sexual Selection and Parental Care in the Threespine Stickleback (gasterosteus Aculeatus)
Author: Frank Arthur Von HippelPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Microevolution Rate, Pattern, Process
Author: Andrew P. HendryPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401005850
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
From guppies to Galapagos finches and from adaptive landscapes to haldanes, this compilation of contributed works provides reviews, perspectives, theoretical models, statistical developments, and empirical demonstrations exploring the tempo and mode of microevolution on contemporary to geological time scales. New developments, and reviews, of classic and novel empirical systems demonstrate the strength and diversity of evolutionary processes producing biodiversity within species. Perspectives and theoretical insights expand these empirical observations to explore patterns and mechanisms of microevolution, methods for its quantification, and implications for the evolution of biodiversity on other scales. This diverse assemblage of manuscripts is aimed at professionals, graduate students, and advanced undergraduates who desire a timely synthesis of current knowledge, an illustration of exciting new directions, and a springboard for future investigations in the study of microevolution in the wild.
Sexual Segregation in Vertebrates
Author: Kathreen RuckstuhlPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521835220
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Males and females of many species can, and do, live separately for long periods of time. This sexual segregation is widespread and can be on social, spatial or habitat scales. An understanding of sexual segregation is important in the explanation of life history and social preference, population dynamics and the conservation of rare species. Sexual Segregation in Vertebrates explores the reasons why this behaviour has evolved and what factors contribute to it.
The Perceptual Mechanisms of Sexual Selection in Sticklebacks
Author: Charles Lawrence BaubePublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Cannibalism
Author: Mark A. ElgarPublisher:
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Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Covering the contextual and taxonomic diversity of cannibalism, this book explains its costs, benefits, and consequences for a taxonomically broad distribution of species from lower eukaryotes to higher primates. The authors, all experts in their taxon of interest, use theory developed for the analysis of foraging, sociality, demography, and genetics to assess the ecological and evolutionary causes and effects of cannibalism. The emerging picture from recent research challenges the view that cannibalism is either abnormal behaviour or an infrequent addition to the predator's usual diet.
A Functional Biology of Sticklebacks
Author: R. J. WooltonPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520335155
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1984.