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1 online resource (300 pages) |
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COVER; HALF-TITLE; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; Preface; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; 1 Introduction; The meaning of phylogeny; Phylogenetic metaphors; Molecular appraisals of phylogeny; Comparative phylogenetics; Phylogenetic character mapping; 2 Anatomical structures and morphologies; Whence the toucan's bill?; The beak of the fish; Snails' shell shapes; More on snails' shell shapes; Winged walkingsticks; Hermits and kings; True and false gharials; Loss of limbs on the reptile tree; Fishy origins of tetrapods; Panda ponderings; Fossil DNA and extinct eagles; The Yeti's abominable phylogeny |
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3 Body colorationsLight and dark mice; Sexual dichromatism; Dabbling into duck plumages; Specific avian color motifs; The poisonous Pitohui; Warning colorations in poison frogs; Müllerian mimicry butterflies; Caterpillar colors and cryptic species; 4 Sexual features and reproductive lifestyles; The chicken or the egg?; The avian nest; Egg dumping and foster parentage; Egg laying and live bearing; Piscine placentas; Male pregnancy; Living and reproducing by the sword; Brood care in Jamaican land crabs; Social parasitism of butterflies on ants; Of monkeyflowers and hummingbirds |
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Parthenogenetic lizards, geckos, and snakesDelayed implantation; 5 More behaviors and ecologies; The kangaroo's bipedal hop; Powered flight in winged mammals; Magnetotaxis in bacteria; Cetacean origins; Feeding and echolocation in whales; The phylogeny of thrush migration; Pufferfish inflation; Eusociality in shrimp; Evolutionary reversals of salamander lifecycles; Dichotomous life histories of marine larvae; Adaptive radiations in island lizards; Spiders' web-building behaviors; Lichen lifestyles; 6 Cellular, physiological, and genetic traits; Foregut fermentation; Snake venoms |
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Antifreeze proteins in anti-tropical fishesWarm-bloodedness in fishes; Electrical currents; The Xs and Ys of sex determination; The eyes have it; Two types of body; The phylogenomics of DNA repair; Roving nucleic acids; Host-to-parasite gene transfer; Tracking the AIDS virus; 7 Geographical distributions; Afrotheria theory; Aussie songbirds; Madagascar's chameleons; The evolutionary cradle of humanity; Coral conservation; Sri Lanka, a cryptic biodiversity hotspot; Overseas plant dispersal; Phylogenetic bearings on Polar Bears; Looking over overlooked elephants; Bergmann's rule; Epilog |
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Appendix: A primer on phylogenetic character mappingHistory of cladistic concepts and terminology; Maximum parsimony; Maximum likelihood; Independent contrasts between pairs of quantitative traits; Glossary; References and Further reading; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Whence the toucan's bill?; The beak of the fish; Snails' shell shapes; More on snails' shell shapes; Winged walkingsticks; Hermits and kings; True and false gharials; Loss of limbs on the reptile tree; Fishy origins of tetrapods; Panda ponderings; Fossil DNA and extinct eagles; The Yeti's abominable phylogeny; Chapter 3 |
| Summary |
Reconstructing phylogenetic trees from DNA sequences has become a popular exercise in many branches of biology, and here the well-known geneticist John Avise explains why. Molecular phylogenies provide a genealogical backdrop for interpreting the evolutionary histories of many other types of biological traits (anatomical, behavioral, ecological, physiological, biochemical and even geographical). Guiding readers on a natural history tour along dozens of evolutionary pathways, the author describes how creatures ranging from microbes to elephants came to possess their current phenotypes. Essentia |
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Light and dark mice |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-278) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Evolution (Biology)
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Phylogeny.
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Phylogeny
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Evolution (Biology)
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Phylogeny
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780511219993 |
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0511219997 |
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1107166748 |
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9781107166745 |
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9786610480227 |
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6610480222 |
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0511220510 |
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9780511220517 |
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0511221282 |
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9780511221286 |
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0511219318 |
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9780511219313 |
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0511324251 |
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9780511324253 |
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0511606931 |
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9780511606939 |
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