Edited by Daphne J. Fairbairn, Wolf U. Blanckenhorn and Tamás Székely
Why do males and females frequently differ so markedly in body size and morphology?
This advanced, research level text is suitable for graduate level students and researchers in the fields of evolutionary biology, behavioural ecology, physiology, developmental biology, and genetics. It will also be of relevance and
use to non-biologists from fields such as anthropology and gender studies.
1. Daphne J. Fairbairn: Introduction: the enigma of sexual size dimorphism
Section I: Macro-patterns: explaining broad-scale patterns of variation in sexual size dimorphism
2. Patrik Lindenfors, John L. Gittleman and Kate E. Jones: Sexual size dimorphism in mammals
3. Tamás
Székely, Terje Lislevand and Jordi Figuerola: Sexual size dimorphism in birds
4. Robert M. Cox, Marguerite A. Butler and Henry B. John-Alder: The evolution of sexual size dimorphism in reptiles
5. Alexander Kupfer: Sexual size dimorphism in amphibians: an overview
6. Wolf U.
Blanckenhorn, Rudolf Meier and Tiit Teder: Rensch's rule in insects: patterns among and within species
7. Matthias W. Foellmer and Jordi Moya-Laraño: Sexual size dimorphism in spiders: patterns and processes
Section II: Micro-patterns: case studies of patterns and evolutionary processes
within and among species
8. Charles W. Fox, R. Craig Stillwell and Jordi Moya-Laraño: Variation in selection, phenotypic plasticity and the ecology of sexual size dimorphism in two seed-feeding beetles
9. Daphne J. Fairbairn: Sexual dimorphism in the water striders, <i>Aquarius
remigis</i>: a case study of adaptation in response to sexually antagonistic selection
10. Wolf U. Blanckenhorn: Case studies of the differential-equilibrium hypothesis of sexual size dimorphism in two dung fly species
11. Lynda F. Delph: The genetic integration of sexually dimorphic traits
in the dioecious plant, <i>Silene latifolia</i>
12. Isabella Capellini: Dimorphism in the hartebeest
13. Ellen Kalmbach and Maria M. Benito: Sexual size dimorphism and offspring vulnerability in birds
14. Evgeny S. Roitberg: Variation in sexual size dimorphism within a widespread lizard
species
15. Luká%s Kratochvíl and Daniel Frynta: Phylogenetic analysis of sexual dimorphism in eye-lid geckos (Eublepharidae): the effects of male combat, courtship behaviour, egg size and body size
Section III: Proximate developmental and genetic mechanisms
16. Turk Rhen: Sex
differences: genetic, physiological, and ecological mechanisms
17. Russell Bonduriansky: The genetic architecture of sexual dimorphism: the potential roles of genomic imprinting and condition dependence
18. Stéphanie Bedhomme and Adam K. Chippindale: Irreconcilable differences: when sexual
dimorphism fails to resolve sexual conflict
19. Henry B. John-Alder and Robert M. Cox: Development of sexual size dimorphism in lizards: testosterone as a bipotential growth regulator
20. Vojt%ech Jaro%sík and Alois Honek: Sexual differences in insect development time in relation to sexual
size dimorphism
Appendices
References
Glossary
Index
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Daphne J. Fairbairn is Professor of Biology at the University of California at Riverside, USA.
Wolf U. Blanckenhorn is Titularprofessor at the Zoologisches Museum, Universität Zürich, Switzerland.
Tamás Székely is Reader in Evolutionary Biology at the Department of
Biology and Biochemistry, University of Bath, UK.
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