Variation /

Other Authors: Hallgrímsson, Benedikt.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier Academic Press, ©2005.
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Table of Contents:
  • Variation and variability : central concepts in biology / Benedikt Hallgrímsson and Brian K. Hall
  • Variation from Darwin to the modern synthesis / Peter J. Bowler
  • The statistics of variation / Leigh Van Valen
  • Landmark morphometrics and the analysis of variation / Joan T. Richtsmeier, Subhash R. Lele, and Theodore M. Cole III
  • Variation in ontogeny / Donna Carlson Jones and Rebecca Z. German
  • Constraints on variation from genotype through phenotype to fitness / Lauren Ancel Meyers
  • Developmental origins of variation / Ellen Larsen
  • Canalization, cryptic variation, and developmental buffering : a critical examination and analytical perspective / Ian Dworkin
  • Mutation and phenotypic variation : where is the connection? : capacitators, stressors, phenotypic variability, and evolutionary change / Ary A. Hoffmann and John A. McKenzie
  • Within individual variation : developmental noise versus developmental stability / Katherine E. Willmore and Benedikt Hallgrímsson
  • Developmental constraints, modules, and evolvability / Christian Peter Klingenberg
  • Developmental regulation of variability / Miriam Leah Zelditch
  • Role of stress in evolution : from individual adaptability to evolutionary adaptation / Alexander V. Badyaev
  • Environmentally contingent variation : phenotypic plasticity and norms of reaction / Sonia E. Sultan and Stephen C. Stearns
  • Variation and life-history evolution / Derek A. Roff
  • Antisymmetry / A. Richard Palmer
  • Variation in structure and its relationship to function : correlation, explanation, and extrapolation / Anthony P. Russell and Aaron M. Bauer
  • A universal generative tendency toward increased organismal complexity / Daniel W. McShea
  • Variation and versatility in macroevolution / V. Louise Roth
  • Variation and developmental biology : prospects for the future / David M. Parichy
  • Phenogenetics : genotypes, phenotypes, and variation / Samuel Sholtis and Kenneth M. Weiss
  • The study of phenotypic variability : an emerging research agenda for understanding the developmental-genetic architecture underlying phenotypic variation / Benedikt Halgrímsson, Jevon James Yardley Brown, and Brian K. Hall.