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Insect Life Cycles

Genetics, Evolution and Co-ordination

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1990

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Editors:
  1. Francis Gilbert

    1. Department of Zoology, Nottingham University, Nottingham, UK

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Table of contents (17 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Genetics of Life-Cycle Traits

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction

      • William E. Bradshaw
      Pages 3-3

    3. Understanding the Evolution of Insect Life-Cycles: The Role of Genetic Analysis

      • Derek A. Roff
      Pages 5-27

    4. The Use of Selection to Probe Patterns of Pleiotropy in Fitness Characters

      • Michael R. Rose, Joseph L. Graves, Edward W. Hutchinson
      Pages 29-42

  3. Evolution of Life-Cycle Traits

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 43-43
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    2. Introduction

      • William E. Bradshaw
      Pages 45-46

    3. Evolution of Phenology and Demography in the Pitcher-Plant Mosquito, Wyeomyia smithii

      • William E. Bradshaw, Christina M. Holzapfel
      Pages 47-67

    4. Developmental Programmes and Adaptive Syndromes in Insect Life-Cycles

      • Susan M. Scott, Hugh Dingle
      Pages 69-85

    5. Coevolution Between Herbivorous Insects and Plants: Tempo and Orchestration

      • May R. Berenbaum
      Pages 87-99

    6. Size, Phylogeny and Life-History in the Evolution of Feeding Specialization in Insect Predators

      • Francis Gilbert
      Pages 101-124

    7. Opportunistic Diapause in the Subtropical Ground Cricket, Dianemobius fascipes

      • Sinzo Masaki
      Pages 125-141

    8. Evolution of Mutualistic Life-Cycles: Yucca Moths and Fig Wasps

      • John F. Addicott, Judith Bronstein, Finn Kjellberg
      Pages 143-161

    9. Testing Hypotheses About the Evolution of the Mean Phenotype in Temporally Variable Environments

      • Fritz Taylor
      Pages 163-177
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About this book

No International Congress of Entomology would now be complete without a symposium on insect life-cycles. The latest Congress, held at Vancouver, BC (Canada), in July 1988, was no exception, with a symposium on the genetics, evolution, and coordination of insect life­ cycles organized by Bill Bradshaw and Valerie Brown. The present volume arose from papers contributed by most of the speakers at the symposium, together with papers from other invited authors. In editing the book, I have been assisted greatly by the other authors, particularly Bill Bradshaw, Val Brown and Fritz Taylor. All contributors agreed to referee two other chapters, a system that worked efficiently and effectively: I thank all authors for performing this task in the face of other demands on their time. I would also like to thank Philip Corbet, John Greenslade, Bryan Clarke, and Gillian Thompson of Springer for their help. Nottingham Francis Gilbert January 1990 Contents List of Contributors ....................................................... xiii SECTION I. Genetics of Life-Cycle Traits Introduction William E. Bradshaw ................................................. 3 1 Understanding the Evolution of Insect Life-Cycles: The Role of Genetic Analysis.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Zoology, Nottingham University, Nottingham, UK

    Francis Gilbert

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Insect Life Cycles

  • Book Subtitle: Genetics, Evolution and Co-ordination

  • Editors: Francis Gilbert

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-3464-0

  • Publisher: Springer London

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag London 1990

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4471-3466-4Published: 12 December 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4471-3464-0Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 258

  • Number of Illustrations: 107 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Zoology, Plant Sciences, Ecology, Cell Biology

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