Development strategies and biodiversity : Darwinian fitness and evolution in the Anthropocene /

Development is a complex and highly dynamic process involving the cross talk among genes, maternal effects and environmental circumstances. Widespread evidence from plant to animal species show that variation in developmental conditions can modulate life history trajectories and influence key traits...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Costantini, David (Editor), Marasco, Valeria (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer, [2022]
Series:Fascinating life sciences.
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Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Evolutionary Meaning of Development: How and Why Early Life Experience Generate Diversity
  • Chapter 1. More than Fifty Shades of Epigenetics for the Study of Early in Life Effects in Medicine, Ecology and Evolution
  • Chapter 2. For Better or Worse: Benefits and Costs of Transgenerational Plasticity and the Transhormesis Hypothesis
  • Chapter 3. Adaptive Meaning of Early Life Experience in Species that Go Through Metamorphosis
  • Part II. Endogenous Mechanisms Underlying the Interactions Between the Individual and Its Early-Life Environment
  • Chapter 4. Early-Life Stress Drives the Molecular Mechanisms Shaping the Adult Phenotype
  • Chapter 5. Environmental Conditions in Early Life, Host Defenses and Disease in Late Life
  • Chapter 6. Early Life Nutrition and the Programming of the Phenotype
  • Part III. Anthropocene Opens New Horizons to Reveal the Adaptive Meaning of Developmental Plasticity
  • Chapter 7. Adaptive and Maladaptive Consequences of Larval Stressors for Metamorphic and Postmetamorphic Traits and Fitness
  • Chapter 8. Plastic Aliens: Developmental Plasticity and the Spread of Invasive Species
  • Chapter 9. Consequences of Developmental Exposure to Pollution: Importance of Stress-Coping Mechanisms.