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Zusatztext '...this multi-authored symposium volume has some new! creative contribution to methods! some useful reveiws of the state of the art...' Klappentext Mothers have the ability to profoundly affect the quality of their offspring--from the size and quality of their eggs to where! when! and how eggs and young are placed! and from providing for and protecting developing young to choosing a mate. In many instances! these maternal effects may be the single most important contributor to variation in offspring fitness. This book explores the wide variety of maternal effects that have evolved in plants and animals as mechanisms of adaptation to temporally and spatially heterogeneous environments. Topics range from the evolutionary implications of maternal effects to the assessment and measurement of maternal effects. Four detailed case studies are also included. This book represents the first synthesis of the current state of knowledge concerning the evolution of maternal effects and their adaptive significance. Zusammenfassung Phenotypic variation is influenced by both genetic and environmental variation. One important source of environmental variation is the maternal effect: influences of the maternal environment on offspring phenotype. Part 1: Theoretical Considerations; 1. The Evolutionary Genetics of Maternal Effects; 2. The Influence of Direct and Indirect Genetic Effects on the Evolution of Behavior: Social and Sexual Selection Meet Maternal Effects; 3. Inertial Growth: Population Dynamics Based on Maternal Effects; 4. What is Adaptive Environmentally Induced Parental Effect?; 5. Oviposition Decisions as Maternal Effects: Conundrums and Opportunities for Conservation Biologists; Part 2: Assessment and Measurement; 6. The Detection and Measurement of Maternal Effects; 7. The Genetics of Maternal Effects; 8. The Role of Environmental Variation in Parental Effects Expression; Part 3: Reviews of Maternal Effects Expression; 9. Maternal Environmental Effects in Plants: Adaptive Plasticity?; 10. Maternal Effects as Adaptations for Transgenerational Phenotypic Plasticity (TPP); 11. Are Maternal Effects in Fish Adaptive or Merely Physiological Side-Effects?; 12. Maternal and Paternal Effects in Birds; 13. Maternal Influences on Larval Competition in Insects; 14. Maternal Effects, Developmental Plasticity, and Life History Evolution: An Amphibial Model; 15. Perinatal Influences on the Reproductive Behavior of Adult Rodents; Part 4: Case Studies of Maternal Effects; 16. Maternal Control of Fly Diapause; 17. Adaptation of Maternal Effects in the Wild: Path Analysis of Natural Variation and Experimental Tests of Causation; 18. Maternal Effects and the Maintenance of Environmental Sex Determination; 19. Density-Mediated Maternal Effects on Seed Size in Wild Radish: Genetic Variation and its Evolutionary Implications; Concluding Remarks: Generalizations, Implications, and Future Directions...
