Evolutionary Pathways in Nature : a Phylogenetic Approach.
Reconstructing phylogenetic trees from DNA sequences has become a popular exercise in many branches of biology, and here the well-known geneticist John Avise explains why. Molecular phylogenies provide a genealogical backdrop for interpreting the evolutionary histories of many other types of biologi...
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| 505 | 0 | |a COVER; HALF-TITLE; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; 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. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 3 Body colorationsLight and dark mice; Sexual dichromatism; Dabbling into duck plumages; Specific avian color motifs; The poisonous Pitohui; Warning colorations in poison frogs; Müllerian 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. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Parthenogenetic lizards, geckos, and snakesDelayed 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. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Antifreeze proteins in anti-tropical fishesWarm-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. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Appendix: A primer on phylogenetic character mappingHistory of cladistic concepts and terminology; Maximum parsimony; Maximum likelihood; Independent contrasts between pairs of quantitative traits; Glossary; References and Further reading; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; 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; Chapter 3. | |
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| 520 | |a Reconstructing phylogenetic trees from DNA sequences has become a popular exercise in many branches of biology, and here the well-known geneticist John Avise explains why. Molecular phylogenies provide a genealogical backdrop for interpreting the evolutionary histories of many other types of biological traits (anatomical, behavioral, ecological, physiological, biochemical and even geographical). Guiding readers on a natural history tour along dozens of evolutionary pathways, the author describes how creatures ranging from microbes to elephants came to possess their current phenotypes. Essentia. | ||
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