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Evolution in action : case studies in adaptive radiation, speciation and the origin of biodiversity / [edited by] Matthias Glaubrecht and in cooperation with Harald Schneider.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Berlin : Springer-Verlag, 2010.Description: xxv, 586 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9783642124242 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 576.8 23 G551
Contents:
Part I - Approaches in Botany Rapid radiations and neoendemism in the Madagascan biodiversity hotspot / Harald Schneider ... [et al.] -- Rapid radiation in the barley genus Hordeum (Poaceae) during the Pleistocene in the Americas / Frank R. Blattner, Thekla Pleines, and Sabine S. Jakob -- Studying adaptive radiation at the molecular level : a case study in the Macaronesian Crassulaceae-Sempervivoideae / Mike Thiv, Korinna Esfeld, and Marcus Koch -- Key innovations versus key opportunities : identifying causes of rapid radiations in derived ferns / Harald Schneider ... [et al.] -- Evolution of the mating system in the genus Capsella (Brassicaceae) / Melanie Paetsch ... [et al.] -- Pollinator-driven speciation in sexually deceptive orchids of the genus Ophrys / Manfred Ayasse, Julia Gögler, and Johannes Stökl -- Population genetics of speciation and demographic inference under population subdivision : insights from studies on wild tomatoes (Solanum sect. Lycopersicon) / Wolfgang Stephan and Thomas Städler -- Genetic diversity, evolution and domestication of wheat and barley in the Fertile Crescent / Benjamin Kilian, William Martin, and Francesco Salamini -- Part II - Host-Plant Interaction Mechanisms of speciation in Southeast Asian ant-plants of the genus Macaranga (Euphorbiaceae) / Kurt Weising ... [et al.] -- Speciation in obligately plant-associated Crematogaster ants : host distribution rather than adaption towards specific hosts drives the process / Heike Feldhaar, Jürgen Gadau, and Brigitte Fiala -- Radiation, biological diversity and host-parasite interactions in wild roses, rust fungi and insects / Annette Kohnen ... [et al.] -- Speciation via differential host-plant use in the tephritid fly Tephritis conura / Jes Johannesen, Thorsten Diegisser, and Alfred Seitz -- Part III - Approaches in Zoology Solar powered seaslugs (Opisthobranchia, Gastropoda, Mollusca) : incorporation of photosynthetic units : a key character enhancing radiation? / Heike Wägele ... [et al.] -- Are cuticular hydrocarbons involved in speciation of fungus-growing termites (Isoptera: Macrotermitinae)? / Andreas Marten, Manfred Kaib, and Roland Brandl -- Electric organ discharge divergence promotes ecological speciation in sympatrically occurring African weakly electric fish (Campylomormyrus) / Ralph Tiedemann, Philine G.D. Feulner, and Frank Kirschbaum -- Ongoing phenotypic and genotypic diversification in adaptively radiated freshwater crabs from Jamaica / Christoph D. Schubart ... [et al.] -- The herring gull complex (Larus argentatus - fuscus - cachinnans) as a model group for recent Holarctic vertebrate radiations / Dorit Liebers-Helbig ... [et al.] -- Genetic divergence and evolution of reproductive isolation in eastern Mediterranean water frogs / Jörg Plötner ... [et al.] -- Inferring multiple Corsican Limax (Pulmonata: Limacidae) radiations : a combined approach using morphology and molecules / Barbara Nitz, Gerhard Falkner, and Gerhard Haszprunar -- Palaeogeography or sexual selection: which factors promoted Cretan land snail radiations? / Jan Sauer and Bemhard Hausdorf -- Non-ecological radiations in acoustically communicating grasshoppers? / Frieder Mayer ... [et al.] -- Beyond sympatric speciation : radiation of sailfin silverside fishes in the Malili Lakes (Sulawesi) / Fabian Herder and Ulrich K. Schliewen -- The species flocks of the viviparous freshwater gastropod Tylomelania (Mollusca: Cerithioidea: Pachychilidae) in the ancient lakes of Sulawesi, Indonesia : the role of geography, trophic morphology and color as driving forces in adaptive radiation / Thomas von Rintelen, Kristina yon Rintelen, and Matthias Glaubrecht -- Speciation and radiation in a river : assessing the morphological and genetic differentiation in a species flock of viviparous gastropods (Cerithioidea: Pachychilidae) / Frank Köhler, Somsak Panha, and Matthias Glaubrecht -- The neglected side of the coin : non-adaptive radiations in spring snails (Bythinella spp.) / Thomas Wilke ... [et al.]. Index.
Summary: This book presents studies and model cases that detail the progress and dynamics of research based on Darwinian theories and sheds light on its implications in the context of current biodiversity crises. It shows evolution in action.
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"Special volume originating from contributions to the Priority Programme SPP 1127 'Radiations : Origins of Biological Diversity' of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I - Approaches in Botany
Rapid radiations and neoendemism in the Madagascan biodiversity hotspot / Harald Schneider ... [et al.] --
Rapid radiation in the barley genus Hordeum (Poaceae) during the Pleistocene in the Americas / Frank R. Blattner, Thekla Pleines, and Sabine S. Jakob --
Studying adaptive radiation at the molecular level : a case study in the Macaronesian Crassulaceae-Sempervivoideae / Mike Thiv, Korinna Esfeld, and Marcus Koch --
Key innovations versus key opportunities : identifying causes of rapid radiations in derived ferns / Harald Schneider ... [et al.] -- Evolution of the mating system in the genus Capsella (Brassicaceae) / Melanie Paetsch ... [et al.] --
Pollinator-driven speciation in sexually deceptive orchids of the genus Ophrys / Manfred Ayasse, Julia Gögler, and Johannes Stökl --
Population genetics of speciation and demographic inference under population subdivision : insights from studies on wild tomatoes (Solanum sect. Lycopersicon) / Wolfgang Stephan and Thomas Städler --
Genetic diversity, evolution and domestication of wheat and barley in the Fertile Crescent / Benjamin Kilian, William Martin, and Francesco Salamini --

Part II - Host-Plant Interaction
Mechanisms of speciation in Southeast Asian ant-plants of the genus Macaranga (Euphorbiaceae) / Kurt Weising ... [et al.] -- Speciation in obligately plant-associated Crematogaster ants : host distribution rather than adaption towards specific hosts drives the process / Heike Feldhaar, Jürgen Gadau, and Brigitte Fiala --
Radiation, biological diversity and host-parasite interactions in wild roses, rust fungi and insects / Annette Kohnen ... [et al.] -- Speciation via differential host-plant use in the tephritid fly Tephritis conura / Jes Johannesen, Thorsten Diegisser, and Alfred Seitz --

Part III - Approaches in Zoology
Solar powered seaslugs (Opisthobranchia, Gastropoda, Mollusca) : incorporation of photosynthetic units : a key character enhancing radiation? / Heike Wägele ... [et al.] --
Are cuticular hydrocarbons involved in speciation of fungus-growing termites (Isoptera: Macrotermitinae)? / Andreas Marten, Manfred Kaib, and Roland Brandl --
Electric organ discharge divergence promotes ecological speciation in sympatrically occurring African weakly electric fish (Campylomormyrus) / Ralph Tiedemann, Philine G.D. Feulner, and Frank Kirschbaum --
Ongoing phenotypic and genotypic diversification in adaptively radiated freshwater crabs from Jamaica / Christoph D. Schubart ... [et al.] --
The herring gull complex (Larus argentatus - fuscus - cachinnans) as a model group for recent Holarctic vertebrate radiations / Dorit Liebers-Helbig ... [et al.] --
Genetic divergence and evolution of reproductive isolation in eastern Mediterranean water frogs / Jörg Plötner ... [et al.] -- Inferring multiple Corsican Limax (Pulmonata: Limacidae) radiations : a combined approach using morphology and molecules / Barbara Nitz, Gerhard Falkner, and Gerhard Haszprunar --
Palaeogeography or sexual selection: which factors promoted Cretan land snail radiations? / Jan Sauer and Bemhard Hausdorf --
Non-ecological radiations in acoustically communicating grasshoppers? / Frieder Mayer ... [et al.] --
Beyond sympatric speciation : radiation of sailfin silverside fishes in the Malili Lakes (Sulawesi) / Fabian Herder and Ulrich K. Schliewen --
The species flocks of the viviparous freshwater gastropod Tylomelania (Mollusca: Cerithioidea: Pachychilidae) in the ancient lakes of Sulawesi, Indonesia : the role of geography, trophic morphology and color as driving forces in adaptive radiation / Thomas von Rintelen, Kristina yon Rintelen, and Matthias Glaubrecht --
Speciation and radiation in a river : assessing the morphological and genetic differentiation in a species flock of viviparous gastropods (Cerithioidea: Pachychilidae) / Frank Köhler, Somsak Panha, and Matthias Glaubrecht --
The neglected side of the coin : non-adaptive radiations in spring snails (Bythinella spp.) / Thomas Wilke ... [et al.].

Index.

This book presents studies and model cases that detail the progress and dynamics of research based on Darwinian theories and sheds light on its implications in the context of current biodiversity crises. It shows evolution in action.

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