1st Edition
Phenotypic Plasticity of Insects Mechanisms and Consequences
This book explores the profound importance of phenotypic plasticity as a central organizing theme for understanding biology. Chapters take a broad, integrative approach to explain how physical and biological environmental stimuli (temperature, photoperiod, nutrition, population density, predator presence, etc.), influence insect biochemical, physiological, learning, and developmental processes, altering phenotype, which then influences performance, ecology, life-history, survival, fitness, and subsequent evolution. Topics include endocrinology, development, body size, allometry, polyphenism, reproduction, reproductive and life-history tradeoffs, alternative mating and life-history strategies, density-dependent prophylaxis, physiological adaptation, acclimation, homeostasis, heat-shock proteins, learning, adaptive anti-predator behavior, and evolution of phenotypic plasticity.
Preface
What is Phenotypic Plasticity and Why is it Important? Douglas W. Whitman and Anurag A. Agrawal
Phenotypic Plasticity and the Semantics of Polyphenism:a Historical Review and Current Perspectives Michael Canfield and Erick Greene
Phenotypic Plasticity and the Origins of Diversity:A Case Study on Horned Beetles Armin P. Moczek
Developmental Flexibility, Phenotypic Plasticity, and Host Plants: A Case Study with Nemoria Caterpillars Erick Greene, Michael Canfield and Adam Ehmer
Phase Polyphenism in Locusts: Mechanisms, Population Consequences, Adaptive Significance and Evolution Stephen J. Simpson and Gregory A. Sword
Density-Dependent Prophylaxis in Insects Kenneth Wilson and Sheena C. Cotter
Natural Enemy-induced Plasticity in Plants and Animals Douglas W. Whitman and Leon Blaustein
Behavioral Plasticity to Risk of Predation:Oviposition Site Selection by a Mosquito in Response to
its Predators Leon Blaustein and Douglas W. Whitman
Polyphenisms in Lepidoptera: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Studies of Evolution and Development P. M. Brakefield and W. A. Frankino
Causes and Consequences of Phenotypic Plasticity in Body Size: The Case of the Yellow Dung Fly Scathophaga stercoraria (Diptera: Scathophagidae) Wolf U. Blanckenhorn
She Shapes Events as they Come: Plasticity in Female Insect Reproduction Jason Hodin
Temperature Dependence of Development Rate, Growth Rate and Size: From Biophysics to Adaptation Gerdien de Jong and Tom M. van der Have
13. The Developmental-Physiological Basis of Phenotypic Plasticity H. Frederik Nijhout and Goggy Davidowitz
Wing Polymorphism in Gryllus (Orthoptera: Gryllidae):Proximate Endocrine, Energetic and Biochemical Mechanisms Underlying Morph Specialization for Flight vs. Reproduction Anthony J. Zera
Evolution of Homeostatic Physiological Systems H. Arthur Woods
Acclimation Douglas W. Whitman
Heat Shock Proteins and their Role in Generating, Maintaining and Even Preventing Alternative
Insect Phenotypes Jason B. Williams, Stephen P. Roberts, and Michelle M. Elekonich
Learned Host Preferences Andrew B. Barron
Adaptive Maternal Effects: A Case Study of Egg Size Plasticity in a Seed-Feeding Beetle Charles W. Fox and Mary Ellen Czesak
On the Origins of Insect Hormone Signaling Jason Hodin
Phenotypic Plasticity and Evolvability:An Empirical Test with Experimental Evolution Henrique Teotónio, Michael R. Rose, and Stephen R. Proulx
Glossary
Genus Index
Insect Family Index
Subject Index
Color Plate Section
Biography
Douglas Whitman
