Evolution in Action

Case Studies in Adaptive Radiation, Speciation and the Origin of Biodiversity

By: Matthias Glaubrecht (Editor)

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Hardcover | 4 August 2010

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Radiations, or Evolution in Action We have just celebrated the "Darwin Year" with the double anniversary of his 200th birthday and 150th year of his masterpiece, "On the Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection". In this work, Darwin established the factual evidence of biological evolution, that species change over time, and that new organisms arise by the splitting of ancestral forms into two or more descendant species. However, above all, Darwin provided the mechanisms by arguing convincingly that it is by natural selection - as well as by sexual selection (as he later added) - that organisms adapt to their environment. The many discoveries since then have essentially con?rmed and strengthened Darwin's central theses, with latest evidence, for example, from molecular genetics, revealing the evolutionary relationships of all life forms through one shared history of descent from a common ancestor. We have also come a long way to progressively understand more on how new species actually originate, i. e. on speciation which remained Darwin's "mystery of m- teries", as noted in one of his earliest transmutation notebooks. Since speciation is the underlying mechanism for radiations, it is the ultimate causation for the biological diversity of life that surrounds us.

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Approaches in Botany
Rapid Radiations and Neoendemism in the Madagascan Biodiversity Hotspot	p. 3
Rapid Radiation in the Barley Genus Hordeum(Poaceae) During the Pleistocene in the Americas	p. 17
Studying Adaptive Radiation at the Molecular Level: A Case Study in the Macaronesian Crassulaceae-Sempervivoideae	p. 35
Key Innovations Versus Key Opportunities: Identifying Causes of Rapid Radiations in Derived Ferns	p. 61
Evolution of the Mating System in the Genus Capsella (Brassicaceae)	p. 77
Pollinator-Driven Speciation in Sexually Deceptive Orchids of the Genus Ophrys	p. 101
Popultion Genetics of Speciation and Demographic Inference Under Population Subdivision: Insights from Studies on Wild Tomatoes (Solanum sect. Lycopersicon)	p. 119
Genetic Diversity, Evolution and Domesticiation of Wheat and Barley in the Fertile Crescent	p. 137
Host-Plant Interaction
Mechanisms of Speciation in Southeast Asian Ant-Plants of the Genus Macaranga (Euphorbiaceae)	p. 169
Speciation in Obligately Plant-Associated Crematogaster Ants: Host Distribution Rather than Adaption Towards Specific Hosts Drives the Process	p. 193
Radiation, Biological Diversity and Host-Parasite Interactions in Wild Roses, Rust Fungi and Insects	p. 215
Speciation via Differential Host-Plan Use in the Tephritid Fly Tephritis conura	p. 239
Approaches in Zoology
Solar Powered Seaslugs (Opisthobranchia, Gastropoda, Mollusca): Incorporation of Photosynthetic Units: A Key Character Enhancing Radiation?	p. 263
Are cuticular Hydrocarbons Involved in Speciation of Fungus-Growing Termites (Isoptera: Macrotermitiane)?	p. 283
Electric Organ Discharge Divergence Promotes Ecological Speciation in Sympatrically Occuring African Weakly Electric Fish (Campylomormyrus)	p. 307
Ongoing Phenotypic and Genotypic Diversification in Adaptively Radiated Freshwater Crabs from Jamaica	p. 323
The Herring Gull Complex (Larus argentatus - fuscus - cachinnans) as a Model Group for Recent Holarctic Vertebrate Radiations	p. 351
Genetic Divergence and Evolution of Reproductive Isolaton in Eastern Mediterranean Water Frogs	p. 373
Inferring Multiple Corsican Limax (Pulmonata: Limacidae) Radiations: A Combined Approach Using Morphology and Molecules	p. 405
Palaeogeography or Sexual Selection: Which Factors Promoted Cretan Land Snail Radiations?	p. 437
Non-Ecological Radiations in Acoustically Communicating Grasshoppers?	p. 451
Beyond Sympatric Speciation: Radiation of Sailfin Siverside Fishes in the Malili Lakes (Sulawesi)	p. 465
The Species Flocks of the Viviparous Freshwater Gastropod Tylomelania (Mollusca: Cerithioidea: Pachychilidae) in the Ancient Lakes of Sulawesi, Indonesia: The Role of Geography, Trophic Morphology and Color as Driving Forces in Adaptive Radiation	p. 485
Speciation and Radiation in a River: Assessing the Morphological and Genetic Differentiation in a Species Flock of Viviparous Gastropods (Cerithiodea: Pachychilidae)	p. 513
The Neglected Side of the Coin: Non-adaptive Radiations in Spring Snails (Bythinella spp.)	p. 551
Index	p. 579
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Evolution in Action

Case Studies in Adaptive Radiation, Speciation and the Origin of Biodiversity

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