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Sex, size, and gender roles evolutionary studies of sexual size dimorphism

Daphne J Fairbairn; Wolf U Blanckenhorn; T Székely (Tamás)

Oxford Oxford University Press New York 2007

Localização: IB - Instituto de Biociências    (QP81.5 S518 ) e outros locais(Acessar)

  • Título:
    Sex, size, and gender roles evolutionary studies of sexual size dimorphism
  • Autor: Daphne J Fairbairn; Wolf U Blanckenhorn; T Székely (Tamás)
  • Assuntos: Sex differences; Sexual dimorphism (Animals); Body size; FISIOLOGIA ANIMAL; EVOLUÇÃO; DIFERENÇAS SEXUAIS ANIMAL; TAMANHO
  • Notas: Includes bibliographical references (p. 218-251) and index
  • Descrição: Introduction: the enigma of sexual size dimorphism / Daphne J. Fairbairn -- Section 1. Macro-patterns: explaining broad-scale patterns of variation in sexual size dimorphism -- Introduction / Tamás Székely -- Sexual size dimorphism in mammals / Patrik Lindenfors, John L. Gittleman and Kate E. Jones -- Sexual size dimorphism in birds / Tamás Székely, Terje Lislevand and Jordi Figuerola -- The evolution of sexual size dimorphism in reptiles / Robert M. Cox, Marguerite A. Butler and Henry B. John-Alder -- Sexual size dimorphism in amphibians: an overview / Alexander Kupfer -- Rensch's rule in insects: patterns among and within species / Wolf U. Blanckenhorn, Rudolf Meier and Tiit Teder -- Sexual size dimorphism in spiders: patterns and processes / Matthias W. Foellmer and Jordi Moya-Laraño -- Section 2. Micro-patterns: case studies of patterns and evolutionary processes within and among species -- Introduction / Wolf U. Blanckenhorn -- Variation in selection, phenotypic plasticity, and the ecology of sexual size dimorphism in two seed-feeding beetles / Charles W. Fox, R. Craig Stillwell and Jordi Moya-Laraño -- Sexual dimorphism in the water strider, Aquarius remigis: a case study of adaptation in response to sexually antagonistic selection / Daphne J. Fairbairn -- Case studies of the differential-equilibrium hypothesis of sexual size dimorphism in two dung fly species / Wolf U. Blanckenhorn -- The genetic integration of sexually dimorphic traits in the dioecious
    plant, Silene latifolia / Lynda F. Delph -- Dimorphism in the hartebeest / Isabella Capellini -- Sexual size dimorphism and offspring vulnerability in birds / Ellen Kalmbach and Maria M. Benito -- Variation in sexual size dimorphism within a widespread lizard species / Evgeny S. Roitberg -- Phylogenetic analysis of sexual dimorphism in eye-lid geckos (Eublepharidae): the effects of male combat, courtship behavior, egg size, and body size / Lukáés Kratochvíl and Daniel Frynta -- Section 3. Proximate
  • Títulos relacionados: Série:Oxford biology
  • Editor: Oxford Oxford University Press New York
  • Data de criação/publicação: 2007
  • Formato: ix, 266 p. ill. 26 cm.
  • Idioma: Inglês

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