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Environmental Stress, Adaptation and Evolution

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Editors:
  1. R. Bijlsma

    1. Department of Genetics, University of Groningen, Haren, The Netherlands

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  2. V. Loeschcke

    1. Department of Ecology and Genetics, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark

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Part of the book series: Experientia Supplementum (EXS, volume 83)

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages III-XVII
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  2. Extreme environments and adaptation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. The evolution of plants in metal-contaminated environments

      • Mark R. Macnair
      Pages 3-24

    3. Responses of aquatic organisms to pollutant stress: Theoretical and practical implications

      • Valerie E. Forbes, Peter Calow
      Pages 25-41

    4. Conifers from the cold

      • Outi A. Savolainen, Päivi K. Hurme
      Pages 43-62

  4. Acclimation and response to thermal stress

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 133-133
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    2. Phenotypic and evolutionary adaptation of a model bacterial system to stressful thermal environments

      • Albert F. Bennett, Richard E. Lenski
      Pages 135-154

    3. Ecological and evolutionary physiology of heat shock proteins and the stress response in Drosophila: Complementary insights from genetic engineering and natural variation

      • Martin E. Feder, Robert A. Krebs
      Pages 155-173

    4. High-temperature stress and the evolution of thermal resistance in Drosophila

      • Volker Loeschcke, Robert A. Krebs, Jesper Dahlgaard, Pawel Michalak
      Pages 175-190

  5. Stress, selection and extinction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 191-191
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    2. Genetic and environmental stress, and the persistence of populations

      • R. Bijlsma, Jørgen Bundgaard, Anneke C. Boerema, Welam F. Van Putten
      Pages 193-207

    3. Adaptation and extinction in changing environments

      • Reinhard Bürger, Michael Lynch
      Pages 209-239

    4. Environmental stress and evolution: A theoretical study

      • Lev A. Zhivotovsky
      Pages 241-254

    5. Stress, developmental stability and sexual selection

      • Anders P. Møller
      Pages 255-268

  6. Evolution and stress

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 269-269
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About this book

Most organisms and populations have to cope with hostile environments, threatening their existence. Their ability to respond phenotypically and genetically to these challenges and to evolve adaptive mechanisms is, therefore, crucial. The contributions to this book aim at understanding, from a evolutionary perspective, the impact of stress on biological systems. Scientists, applying different approaches spanning from the molecular and the protein level to individuals, populations and ecosystems, explore how organisms adapt to extreme environments, how stress changes genetic structure and affects life histories, how organisms cope with thermal stress through acclimation, and how environmental and genetic stress induce fluctuating asymmetry, shape selection pressure and cause extinction of populations. Finally, it discusses the role of stress in evolutionary change, from stress induced mutations and selection to speciation and evolution at the geological time scale. The book contains reviews and novel scientific results on the subject. It will be of interest to both researchers and graduate students and may serve as a text for graduate courses.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Genetics, University of Groningen, Haren, The Netherlands

    R. Bijlsma

  • Department of Ecology and Genetics, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark

    V. Loeschcke

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Environmental Stress, Adaptation and Evolution

  • Editors: R. Bijlsma, V. Loeschcke

  • Series Title: Experientia Supplementum

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-8882-0

  • Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Basel AG 1997

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-7643-5695-8Published: 23 September 1997

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-0348-9813-3Published: 08 October 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-0348-8882-0Published: 08 March 2013

  • Series ISSN: 1664-431X

  • Series E-ISSN: 2504-3692

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 326

  • Topics: Life Sciences, general, Biomedicine general

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