Maternal Effects As Adaptations Hardcover

Fox Mousseau

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. Heritable maternal effects have been shown to influence the life histories, behaviour, and population dynamics of a wide variety of plants and animals. They are likely to have evolved as a mechanism for cueing offspring to appropriate development for predicted environmental conditions. This will be the first book dealing with the broad range of maternal effects.

9780195111637

English

Oxford University Press, USA

18-06-1998

390

Timothy A. Mousseau

Charles W. Fox

...this multi-authored symposium volume has some new, creative contribution to methods, some useful reveiws of the state of the art...'