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Phenotypic plasticity of insects :

1578084237

9781578084234

b517784

Phenotypic plasticity of insects :

[Book]

mechanisms and consequences /

editors, Douglas W. Whitman, T.N. Ananthakrishnan

Enfield, NH :

Science Publishers,

[2009]

©2009

x, 894 pages :

illustrations (some color) ;

25 cm

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

What is phenotypic plasticity and why is it important? / Douglas W. Whitman and Anurag A. Agrawal -- Phenotypic plasticity and the semantics of polyphenism : a historical review and current perspectives / Michael Canfield and Erick Greene -- Phenotypic plasticity and the origins of diversity : a case study on horned beetles / Armin P. Moczek -- Developmental flexibility, phenotypic plasticity, and lost plants : a case study with Nemoria caterpillars / Erick Greene, Michael Canfield and Adam Ehmer -- Phase polyphenism in locusts : mechanisms, population consequences, adaptive significance and evolution / Stephen J. Simpson and Gregory A. Sword -- Density-dependent prophylaxis in insects / Kenneth Wilson and Sheena C. Cotter -- Natural enemy-induced plasticity in plants and animals / Douglas W. Whitman and Leon Blaustein -- Behavioral plasticity to risk of predation : oviposition site selection by a mosquito in response to its predators / Leon Blaustein and Douglas W. Whitman -- Polyphenisms in Lepidoptera : multidisciplinary approaches to studies of evolution and development / P.M. Brakefield and W.A. Frankino -- Causes and consequences of phenotypic plasticity in body size : the case of the yellow dung fly Scathophaga stercoraria (Diptera: Scathophagidae) / Wolf U. Blanckenhorn -- She shapes events as they come : plasticity in female insect reproduction / Jason Hodin -- Temperature dependence of development rate, growth rate and size : from biophysics to adaptation / Gerdien de Jong and Tom M. van der Have -- The developmental-physiological basis of phenotypic plasticity / H. Frederik Nijhout and Goggy Davidowitz -- Wing polymorphism in Gryllus (Orthoptera: Gryllidae) : proximate endocrine, energetic and biochemical mechanisms underlying morph specialization for flight vs. reproduction / Anthony J. Zera -- Evolution of homeostatic physiological systems / H. Arthur Woods -- Acclimation / Douglas W. Whitman -- Heat shock proteins and their role in generating, maintaining and even preventing alternative insect phenotypes / Jason B. Williams, Stephen P. Roberts, and Michelle M. Elekonich -- Learned host preferences / Andrew B. Barron -- Adaptive maternal effects : a case study of egg size plasticity in a seed-feeding beetle / Charles W. Fox and Mary Ellen Czesak -- On the origins of insect hormone signaling / Jason Hodin -- Phenotypic plasticity and evolvability : an empirical test with experimental evolution / Henrique Teotónio, Michael R. Rose, and Stephen R. Proulx

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Phenotypic plasticity of insects.

Insects

Phenotypic plasticity

Ananthakrishnan, T. N.,1925-

Whitman, Douglas, (Douglas W.)

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