Overview
- The first comprehensive book on the ecological aspects of lateral asymmetry
- Describes all methods of laterality research, including field observation, experiment, modeling and statistics
- Includes works with great impact on frequency-dependent selection and speciation
Part of the book series: Ecological Research Monographs (ECOLOGICAL)
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This book presents the latest research findings on the laterality of fish and other animals. It describes all aspects of lateral asymmetry, including ecology, morphology, behaviour, dynamics of lefty and righty morphs, genetics and evolution, through field observations, experiments and modeling.
Lateral asymmetry in scale-eating cichlids gives a simple and beautiful example of negative frequency-dependent selection and resulting oscillation of lefty and righty morph frequencies. Lateral dimorphism is found not only in scale-eaters but in all orders of fish, shrimps and cuttlefish. Lateral asymmetry interacts between species through "cross-predation." Contrary to fish, lateral asymmetry in snails acts as, in most cases, positive frequency-dependent selection and provides deep insights into speciation. Especially, snakes eating righty snails facilitate speciation of lefty snails.
As a collaboration work of field ecologists and theoretical biologists, this book covers a variety of topics on lateral asymmetry, which are consistently related to predation. The topics include behavioral ecology, population dynamics, physiology, evolution, genetics, development, learning and neuroscience, statistics, with the subjects of fish, shrimp, prawn, and crayfish, crab, cuttlefish, and snake and snail. Chapters cover new research results such as cuttlefish laterality dynamics, interaction between laterality of snails and snakes, evolution of laterality genetic system, and statistical analysis of laterality oscillation. Readers will appreciate the simplicity and beauty of lateral asymmetry and its profound impact on ecology and evolution.
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Michio Hori (Dr. Sc., Prof. Emeritus of Kyoto Univ.)Satoshi Takahashi, Research Group of Environmental Science, Nara Women's University (Ph. D., Prof.)
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Lateral Asymmetry in Animals
Book Subtitle: Predator-Prey Interactions, Dynamics, and Evolution
Editors: Michio Hori, Satoshi Takahashi
Series Title: Ecological Research Monographs
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-1342-6
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-19-1340-2Published: 24 July 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-19-1382-2Published: 24 July 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-981-19-1342-6Published: 23 July 2022
Series ISSN: 2191-0707
Series E-ISSN: 2191-0715
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 295
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Animal Ecology, Animal Anatomy / Morphology / Histology, Mathematical and Computational Biology, Behavioral Sciences, Theoretical Ecology/Statistics, Evolutionary Biology