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Evolution illuminated : salmon and their relatives /
This book will appeal to investigators in each of the scientific disciplines it integrates-evolutionary biology, ecology, salmonid biology, management, and conservation. Variation in salmonids can be used to illustrate virtually all evolutionary questions, and so the work will also attract general s...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2004.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contributors; Introduction: The Salmonid Contribution to Key Issues in Evolution; 1 Life Histories, Evolution, and Salmonids; 2 The Evolution of Philopatry and Dispersal: Homing versus Straying in Salmonids; 3 To Sea or Not to Sea? Anadromy versus Non-Anadromy in Salmonids; 4 Evolution of Egg Size and Number; 5 Norms of Reaction and Phenotypic Plasticity in Salmonid Life Histories; 6 Ecological Theory of Adaptive Radiation: An Empirical Assessment from Coregonine Fishes (Salmoniformes); 7 From Macro- to Micro-Evolution: Tempo and Mode in Salmonid Evolution.
- 8 Evolution in Mixed Company: Evolutionary Inferences from Studies of Natural Hybridization in Salmonidae9 Salmonid Breeding Systems; 10 Salmonid Insights into Effective Population Size; 11 Evolution of Chinook Salmon Life History under Size-Selective Harvest; 12 Conservation Units and Preserving Diversity; 13 Toward Evolutionary Management: Lessons from Salmonids; Appendix 1: Straying Rates of Anadromous Salmonids; Appendix 2: Genetic Differentiation among Conspecific Salmonid Populations at Nuclear DNA Loci; Appendix 3: Differences between Anadromous and Non-Anadromous Salmonids; References.
- IndexA; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W.