The evolution of primary sexual characters in animals

This edited volume explores primary sexual characters in a wide variety of animal taxa. It provides an overview of sexual diversity, the selective pressures that have shaped it, and an introduction to the data and theoretical issues in sexual selection that are changing our view of sexual processes. INDICE: 1.: Introduction: Celebrating and Understanding Reproductive Diversity; Janet L. Leonard; PART I: GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS; 2.: The Distinctionbetween Primary and Secondary Sexual Characters; Michael T. Ghiselin; 3.: TheEvolution of Sexes, Gametes, and Sexual Systems: Natural vs. Sexual Selection; Janet L. Leonard; 4.: Rapid Divergent Evolution of Genitalia: Theory and Data Updated; William G. Eberhard; 5.: Killing Time: A Mechanism of Sexual Conflict and Sexual Selection; Patricia Adair Gowaty and Stephen P. Hubbell; PART II: PRIMARY SEXUAL CHARACTERS IN SELECTED TAXA; 6.: Gamete Release and Spawning Behavior in Broadcast Spawning Marine Invertebrates; Katie E. Lotterhos and Don R. Levitan; 7.: Prosobranchs with Internal Fertilization; Alan N. Hodgson; 8.: Opisthobranchs; Ángel Valdés, Terrence M. Gosliner, and Michael T. Ghiselin; 9.: Basommatophoran Gastropods; Philippe Jarne, Patrice David, Jean-Pierre Pointier, and Joris M. Koene; 10.: Stylommatophoran Gastropods; Bruno Baur; 11.: An Ancient Indirect Sex Model: Single and Mixed Patterns in the Evolution ofScorpion Genitalia; Alfredo V. Peretti; 12.: Spider Genitalia: Precise Maneuvers with a Numb Structure in a Complex Lock; William G. Eberhard and Bernhard A. Huber; 13.: Genitalic Evolution in Opiliones; Rogelio Macías-Ordóñez, Glauco Machado, Abel Pérez-González, and Jeffrey W. Shultz; 14.: The Evolution of Male and Female Internal Reproductive Organs in Insects; Nina Wedell and David J. Hosken; 15.: Selective Forces Propelling Genitalic Evolution in Odonata; Adolfo Cordero Rivera and Alex Córdoba-Aguilar; 16.: Postcopulatory Sexual Selection in the Coleoptera: Mechanisms and Consequences; Paul Eady; 17.: Fertilization Mode, Sperm Competition, and Cryptic Female Choice Shape: Primary Sexual Characters in Fish; Michael Taborsky and Francis C. Neat; 18.: Evolution of Primary Sexual Characters in Amphibians.; Lynne D. Houck and Paul A. Verrell; 19.: Evolution of Primary Sexual Characters in Reptiles; Tobias Uller, Devi Stuart-Fox, and Mats Olsson; 20.: Sexual Conflict and the Intromittent Organs of Male Birds; Robert Montgomerie; 21.: Genitalic Traits of Mammals: Systematics and Variation; Edward H. Miller; 22.: The Evolution of Primary Sexual Characters in Animals: A Summary; Alex Córdoba-Aguilar; Index

• ISBN: 978-0-19-532555-3
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 400
• Fecha Publicación: 05/08/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés