Maternal Effects As Adaptations

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Part I: Conceptual Issues......Page 18
1 The Evolutionary Genetics of Maternal Effects......Page 20
2 The Influence of Direct and Indirect Genetic Effects on the Evolution of Behavior: Social and Sexual Selection Meet Maternal Effects......Page 37
3 Inertial Growth: Population Dynamics Based on Maternal Effects......Page 57
4 What Is an Adaptive Environmentally Induced Parental Effect?......Page 69
5 Oviposition Decisions as Maternal Effects: Conundrums and Opportunities for Conservation Biologists......Page 82
Part II: Assessment and Measurement......Page 96
6 The Detection and Measurement of Maternal Effects......Page 98
7 Genetics of Maternal and Paternal Effects......Page 112
8 The Role of Environmental Variation in Parental Effects Expression......Page 127
Part III: Reviews of Maternal Effects Expression......Page 150
9 Maternal Environmental Effects in Plants: Adaptive Plasticity?......Page 152
10 Maternal Effects as Adaptations for Transgenerational Phenotypic Plasticity in Insects......Page 174
11 Are Maternal Effects in Fish Adaptive or Merely Physiological Side Effects?......Page 193
12 Maternal and Paternal Effects in Birds: Effects on Offspring Fitness......Page 217
13 Maternal Influences on Larval Competition in Insects......Page 242
14 Maternal Effects, Developmental Plasticity, and Life History Evolution: An Amphibian Model......Page 259
15 Perinatal Influences on the Reproductive Behavior of Adult Rodents......Page 276
Part IV: Case Studies of Maternal Effects......Page 288
16 Maternal Control of Fly Diapause......Page 290
17 Adaptation of Maternal Effects in the Wild: Path Analysis of Natural Variation and Experimental Tests of Causation......Page 303
18 Maternal Effects and the Maintenance of Environmental Sex Determination......Page 322
19 Density-Mediated Maternal Effects on Seed Size in Wild Radish: Genetic Variation and Its Evolutionary Implications......Page 338
Concluding Remarks: Generalizations, Implications, and Future Directions......Page 360
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