Eco-Evo-Devo : The Environmental Regulation of Development, Health, and Evolution.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gilbert, Scott F.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Evolutionary developmental biology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (537 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2026.

Summary:

Written for any undergraduate and graduate students with a basic knowledge of biology, Eco-Evo-Devo promises to stimulate new thinking about inheritance, development, ecology, evolution, and health.

Contents:

Cover

Title page

Copyright page

Brief Contents

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Authors

PART I Eco-Evo-Devo: Basic Concepts

1 A New Way of Thinking About Life

1.1 Celebrating the Day You Were Born

1.1.1 The Initiation of Labor: The First Function of the Lung

1.1.2 Going Through the Birth Canal: Evolutionary Trade-offs

1.1.3 The Lung at Birth: Clearing Out the Amniotic Fluid

1.1.4 The Brain at Birth: Establishing Rhythmic Breathing Behavior

1.1.5 The Heart at Birth: Establishing Pulmonary Circulation

1.1.6 "You Complete Me": The Gift of Symbionts at Birth

1.2 Pervasive Plasticity

1.2.1 Plasticity Matters: A Plague of Locusts

1.3 A Symbiotic View of Life: Organisms as Holobionts

1.3.1 Woodrats

1.3.2 Poisonous Newts

1.3.3 Tea Plants

1.3.4 Sympoiesis: Symbiosis Throughout Our Life Cycle

1.3.5 The "Grand" Mutualistic Symbioses

1.4 Layers of Inheritance

1.5 Levels of Selection and the Evolution of Individuality

1.6 A New Planet and New Threats to Life

References

2 Ecology and Evolution: An Intertwined Relationship

2.1 Ecology: The Source of Environmental Variation

2.1.1 Natural Environments Vary

2.1.2 Organisms Respond to Environmental Variation via Plasticity or Adaptation

2.1.3 Organisms Invest in Growth, Development, and Reproduction in Different Ways

2.1.4 Organisms Interact in Different Ways

2.1.5 Organisms Interact, Often Indirectly, Within a Community, With Some Playing a Crucial Role

2.1.6 Species Interactions Can Spur Coevolution

2.1.7 Specialization Is the Primary Mechanism of Species Coexistence

2.2 Evolution: The Origins of Adaptation, Diversity, and Complexity

2.2.1 What Is Evolution?

2.2.2 How Does Natural Selection Work?

2.2.3 The Importance of Inheritance

2.2.4 Causes of Evolution Other Than Selection.

2.3 Key Facts About Evolution and Selection

2.3.1 Fact #1: Evolution Produces a Tree-like Pattern

2.3.2 Fact #2: Natural Selection Acts on Individuals, but Its Consequences Occur in Populations

2.3.3 Fact #3: Evolution by Natural Selection Is Not Random

2.3.4 Fact #4: Natural Selection Does Not Lead to Perfection

2.3.5 Fact #5: Genetic Variation for Adaptation May Preexist, or It May Be Introduced Into a Population

2.3.6 Fact #6: Adaptive Evolution Can Lead to Complex Adaptations . . . but Not Invariably

2.3.7 Fact #7: Microevolutionary Processes Can Lead to Macroevolutionary Change

2.3.8 Fact #8: There Are Limits and Constraints on Adaptive Evolution

2.4 Darwin's Conundrum: Explaining Traits That Diminish Fitness

2.4.1 The Problem of Altruism

2.4.2 Evolution of Extravagant Secondary Sexual Traits

2.5 Ecology and Evolution of Holobiont Communities

What Needs to Be Done

Further Reading

3 History of Life: Patterns and Processes

3.1 Some Geological Fundamentals

3.1.1 History of a Dynamic Planet

3.1.2 The Geological Timescale and the Discovery of Deep Time

3.1.3 The Fossil Record

3.2 Origin and Early Evolution of Life

3.2.1 Origin of Life

3.2.2 First Widely Accepted Evidence of Life

3.2.3 The Great Oxygenation Event

3.2.4 Precambrian Innovations and the Origin of Animals

3.3 Key Events in the Phanerozoic

3.3.1 The Cambrian Explosion: Animals Diversify

3.3.2 Life Moves Onto Land and Into the Air

3.3.3 Evolution of Humans

3.4 Macroevolutionary Patterns and Processes

3.4.1 Tempo of Macroevolution

3.4.2 Mode of Macroevolution

3.5 Evolution of Biodiversity

3.5.1 Adaptive Radiation

3.5.2 Mass Extinction

4 Development: The Origin of Phenotypic Variation.

4.1 The Core of Development: Differential Gene Activity

4.1.1 Signal Transduction Cascades

4.1.2 The Functional Anatomy of Genes

4.1.3 DNA and Histone Methylation

4.2 The Environmental Regulation of Development

4.3 Phenotypic Plasticity

4.3.1 Temperature-Dependent Phenotypes

4.3.2 Diet-Induced Phenotypic Changes: You Are What You Eat

4.3.3 Predator-Induced Polyphenisms

4.3.4 Sexual Polyphenism Induced by the Social Environment

4.3.5 Stress-Induced Phenotypes

4.3.6 Resource Polyphenisms and Cannibalism: Extreme Phenotypes for Extreme Times

4.4 Developmental Symbiosis

PART II Eco-Evo-Devo: Putting the Concepts Together

5 Ecology and Development: Another Intertwined Relationship

5.1 How Life Responds to Rapid Environmental Change

5.1.1 Dispersal

5.1.2 Dormancy

5.1.3 Phenotypic Plasticity

5.2 Key Features of Plasticity

5.2.1 Diverse Traits Exhibit Plasticity in Response to Diverse Environmental Factors

5.2.2 Plasticity Can Enhance Fitness in Variable Environments

5.2.3 The Expression of Adaptive Plasticity Requires the Assessment of Reliable Cues

5.2.4 Plasticity Is Not Always Adaptive

5.2.5 Plasticity Varies in Time of Induction, Speed of Response, and Permanence

5.2.6 Plastic Is Often Underlain by Heritable Variation

5.2.7 Particular Plastic Responses Can Sometimes Be Inherited

5.2.8 Some Forms of Transgenerational Plasticity Are Adaptive

5.3 Plasticity and Ecological Interactions

5.3.1 How Plasticity Mediates Ecological Interactions Between Individuals

5.3.2 Plasticity and Reciprocal Phenotypic Change

5.3.3 Competition and Resource Polyphenism

5.3.4 Plasticity and Character Displacement

5.3.5 Plasticity and Species Coexistence

5.3.6 Plasticity and Sexual Selection.

5.4 Plasticity and the Risk of Extinction

5.4.1 How Plasticity ``Buys Time'' and Promotes Population Persistence

5.4.2 Empirical Support for the Buying Time Hypothesis

6 The Organism as Ecosystem: Symbiosis in Development and Evolution

6.1 Developmental Symbiosis

6.2 Initiating the ``Grand'' Symbioses

6.2.1 Nitrogen-Fixing Symbioses

6.2.2 Mycorrhizae

6.2.3 Tidal and Coral Ecosystems

6.3 Intergenerational Sympoiesis in Mammals

6.4 The Mutualistic Bacteria of the Vertebrate Gut

6.5 Sympoiesis and Mammalian Immune Function

6.6 Bacteria, Brain, and Behavior

6.7 Symbionts and the Management of Life Cycles

6.8 How Symbionts Affect Evolution

6.8.1 How Symbionts Generate New Selectable Variation

6.8.2 Altering the Genome Through Symbiotic Interactions

6.8.3 Reproductive Isolation Caused by Symbionts

6.8.4 Facilitating Horizontal Gene Transfer

6.9 Developmental Symbioses Beyond Holobionts: Caterpillars and Their Ecosystems

6.9.1 The Large Blue Butterfly

6.9.2 The Bella Moth and the Monarch

6.9.3 The Goldenrod Gall Fly

7 Inheritance: An Ecological Perspective

7.1 Genetic Inheritance: Transmission of DNA via Nuclear Chromosomes

7.2 Nongenetic Inheritance: Epigenetic Inheritance

7.2.1 Toadflax Dilemma and Lady's Thumbs

7.2.2 Transmitting Predator Avoidance Strategies in Daphnia, Radishes, and Mice

7.2.3 Transmission of Anxiety in Rats

7.3 Nongenetic Inheritance: Transmission of Microbial Symbionts

7.3.1 Symbiotic Inheritance in Pea Aphids

7.3.2 Modes of Symbiotic Inheritance

7.4 Nongenetic Inheritance: Parental Effects

7.5 Nongenetic Inheritance: Ecological Inheritance

7.6 Nongenetic Inheritance: Cultural Transmission.

7.7 Comparing Inheritance Systems

7.8 How Nongenetic Inheritance Mediates Evolution

8 Evolution Through Developmental Regulatory Genes

8.1 The Origins of Evolutionary Developmental Biology

8.2 Incorporating Development Into Evolutionary Biology: Natural Selection Acting on Developmental Variation

8.2.1 Enhancer Modularity

8.3 From Micro- to Macroevolution: Importance of "Toolkit Genes

8.3.1 Duplication and Divergence: The Hox Genes

8.3.2 Duplication and Divergence in Human Brain Development

8.3.3 Duplication and Divergence: Plasticity

8.3.4 Homologous Pathways of Development

8.3.5 Toolkit Genes and Evolution: Summary

8.4 Developmental Mechanisms of Macroevolutionary Change

8.4.1 Heterotopy

8.4.2 Heterochrony

8.4.3 Heterometry

8.4.4 Heterotypy

8.5 Evolvability and Developmental Biases

9 Phenotypic Plasticity and Evolution

9.1 Plasticity's Complicated Relationship With Evolutionary Biology

9.2 Evolution of Plasticity

9.2.1 Conditions Favoring Plasticity's Evolution

9.2.2 Genetic Accommodation: Evolution of Increased Versus Decreased Plasticity

9.2.3 Genetic Assimilation: The Evolutionary Loss of Plasticity

9.2.4 Plasticity Versus Robustness: Different Sides of the Same Developmental Coin

9.2.5 Evolution of Plasticity: Reaction Norm or Polyphenism?

9.3 How Plasticity Impacts Evolution

9.3.1 Plasticity as an Impediment to Evolution

9.3.2 Plasticity as a Driver of Evolution

9.4 Plasticity and Diversification

9.4.1 Plasticity and Speciation

9.4.2 Plasticity and Adaptive Radiation

9.5 Final Thoughts on Plasticity's Complicated Relationship With Evolutionary Biology

References.

10 The Origins of Complexity in Development and Evolution: From Genomes to Societies.

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ISBN:

0-19-766404-0

0-19-766403-2

OCLC:

1581155794