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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822710403321

Titolo

Evolution illuminated : salmon and their relatives / / edited by Andrew P. Hendry, Stephen C. Stearns [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; , : Oxford University Press, , 2023

�2004

ISBN

0-19-770090-X

1-280-53151-7

0-19-534383-2

1-4337-0105-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (521 p.)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

597.5/5138

Soggetti

Salmonidae - Evolution

Fish populations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2003.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; 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;



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Sommario/riassunto

This text should appeal to investigators in each of the scientific disciplines. It integrates evolutionary biology, ecology, salmonid biology, management and conservation.