Evolutionary pathways in nature : a phylogenetic approach /
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| Author / Creator: | Avise, John C. |
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| Imprint: | Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006. |
| Description: | x, 286 p. : ill., charts ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6119986 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction
- The meaning of phylogeny
- Phylogenetic metaphors
- Molecular appraisals of phylogeny
- Comparative phylogenetics
- Phylogenetic character mapping
- 2. Anatomical structures and morphologies
- Whence the toucan's bill?
- The beak of the fish
- Snails' shell shapes
- More on snails' shell shapes
- Winged walkingsticks
- Hermits and kings
- True and false gharials
- Loss of limbs on the reptile tree
- Fishy origins of tetrapods
- Panda ponderings
- Fossil DNA and extinct eagles
- The Yeti's abominable phylogeny
- 3. Body colorations
- Light and dark mice
- Sexual dichromatism
- Dabbling into duck plumages
- Specific avian color motifs
- The poisonous Pitohui
- Warning colorations in poison frogs
- Mullerian mimicry butterflies
- Caterpillar colors and cryptic species
- 4. Sexual features and reproductive lifestyles
- The chicken or the egg?
- The avian nest
- Egg dumping and foster parentage
- Egg laying and live bearing
- Piscine placentas
- Male pregnancy
- Living and reproducing by the sword
- Brood care in Jamaican land crabs
- Social parasitism of butterflies on ants
- Of monkeyflowers and hummingbirds
- Parthenogenetic lizards, geckos, and snakes
- Delayed implantation
- 5. More behaviors and ecologies
- The kangaroo's bipedal hop
- Powered flight in winged mammals
- Magnetotaxis in bacteria
- Cetacean origins
- Feeding and echolocation in whales
- The phylogeny of thrush migration
- Pufferfish inflation
- Eusociality in shrimp
- Evolutionary reversals of salamander lifecycles
- Dichotomous life histories of marine larvae
- Adaptive radiations in island lizards
- Spiders' web-building behaviors
- Lichen lifestyles
- 6. Cellular, physiological, and genetic traits
- Foregut fermentation
- Snake venoms
- Antifreeze proteins in anti-tropical fish
- Warm-bloodedness in fishes
- Electrical currents
- The Xs and Ys of sex determination
- The eyes have it
- Two types of body
- The phylogenomics of DNA repair
- Roving nucleic acids
- Host-to-parasite gene transfer
- Tracking the AIDS virus
- 7. Geographical distributions
- Afrotheria theory
- Aussie songbirds
- Madagascar's chameleons
- The evolutionary cradle of humanity
- Coral conservation
- Sri Lanka, a cryptic biodiversity hotspot
- Overseas plant dispersal
- Phylogenetic bearings on Polar Bears
- Looking over overlooked elephants
- Bergmann's rule
- Epilog
- Appendix A. Primer on phylogenetic character mapping
- History of cladistic concepts and terminology
- Maximum parsimony
- Maximum likelihood
- Independent contrasts between pairs of quantitative traits
- Glossary
- References and further reading
- Index
