The evolution of anisogamy : a fundamental phenomenon underlying sexual selection
New York
Cambridge University Press
2011
xi, 250 p.: ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index
]edited by[ Tatsuya Togashi, Paul Alan Cox
Introduction : the evolutionary mystery of gamete dimorphism / 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