Phenotypes: Their epigenetics, ecology and evolution

by C.D. Rollo

Overview

This book provides a framework for understanding organism design including constraints, trends and major constellations of adaptive tactics. The fundamental organization revolves around organisms as problem solving machines - the key problems and alternative solutions.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780412410307
Publisher:	Springer Netherlands
Publication date:	10/31/1994
Edition description:	1994
Pages:	464
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.36(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

Table of Contents

Preface. Hierarchical reductionism and the evolution of biological organization. Regulatory interactions, epigenetics and genomic integration. Epigenetics and developmental hierarchies. The subspecific lineage paradigm and the genetic templet. Metalineage selection and sexual reproduction. Phenotypic plasticity, allelic switches and canalization: a metalineage perspective. Adaptive suites, coadapted genomes and dynamic genetic templets. Trade offs and synergisms in phenotypic organization: an evolutionary framework. The evolution of senescence and longevity assurance. The principle of allocation: limitations, life-times and metabolic relativity. Life-times and limitations: speculations in a lineage paradigm. The ecological triumvirate: phenotypic correlations of stress, disturbance and biotically diverse habitats. References. Index.

Editorial Reviews

This is a very good book - The Biologist; ...contains much food for thought - The Molecular Engineer and Biotechnologist

From the Publisher

Incorporates modern knowledge of the structure and regulation of genes into an evolutionary framework that stresses the importance of genomic integration as a selectable feature in the evolution of multicellular phenotypes. The framework allows new perspectives and interpretations of such subjects as transposable elements, epigenetics, the evolution of sex, phenotypic plasticity, and the evolution and regulation of longevity assurance systems. The scope reaches from molecules to entire ecological systems, and so might interest any species of biologist, especially any engaged in breeding or genetic design. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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