Evolution in Action : Case studies in Adaptive Radiation, Speciation and the Origin of Biodiversity - Glaubrecht, Matthias; SpringerLink (Online service) (Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2010)
Approaches in Botany -- Rapid Radiations and Neoendemism in the Madagascan Biodiversity Hotspot -- Rapid Radiation in the Barley Genus Hordeum (Poaceae) During the Pleistocene in the Americas -- Studying Adaptive Radiation at the Molecular Level: A Case Study in the Macaronesian Crassulaceae-Sempervivoideae -- Key Innovations Versus Key Opportunities: Identifying Causes of Rapid Radiations in Derived Ferns -- Evolution of the Mating System in the Genus Capsella (Brassicaceae) -- Pollinator-Driven Speciation in Sexually Deceptive Orchids of the Genus Ophrys -- Population Genetics of Speciation and Demographic Inference Under Population Subdivision: Insights from Studies on Wild Tomatoes (Solanum sect. Lycopersicon) -- Genetic Diversity, Evolution and Domestication of Wheat and Barley in the Fertile Crescent -- Host-Plant Interaction -- Mechanisms of Speciation in Southeast Asian Ant-Plants of the Genus Macaranga (Euphorbiaceae) -- Speciation in Obligately Plant-Associated Crematogaster Ants: Host Distribution Rather than Adaption Towards Specific Hosts Drives the Process -- Radiation, Biological Diversity and Host-Parasite Interactions in Wild Roses, Rust Fungi and Insects -- Speciation via Differential Host-Plant Use in the Tephritid Fly Tephritis conura -- Approaches in Zoology -- Solar Powered Seaslugs (Opisthobranchia, Gastropoda, Mollusca): Incorporation of Photosynthetic Units: A Key Character Enhancing Radiation? -- Are Cuticular Hydrocarbons Involved in Speciation of Fungus-Growing Termites (Isoptera: Macrotermitinae)? -- Electric Organ Discharge Divergence Promotes Ecological Speciation in Sympatrically Occurring African Weakly Electric Fish (Campylomormyrus) -- Ongoing Phenotypic and Genotypic Diversification in Adaptively Radiated Freshwater Crabs from Jamaica -- The Herring Gull Complex (Larus argentatus - fuscus - cachinnans) as a Model Group for Recent Holarctic Vertebrate Radiations -- Genetic Divergence and Evolution of Reproductive Isolation in Eastern Mediterranean Water Frogs -- Inferring Multiple Corsican Limax (Pulmonata: Limacidae) Radiations: A Combined Approach Using Morphology and Molecules -- Palaeogeography or Sexual Selection: Which Factors Promoted Cretan Land Snail Radiations? -- Non-Ecological Radiations in Acoustically Communicating Grasshoppers? -- Beyond Sympatric Speciation: Radiation of Sailfin Silverside Fishes in the Malili Lakes (Sulawesi) -- 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 -- Speciation and Radiation in a River: Assessing the Morphological and Genetic Differentiation in a Species Flock of Viviparous Gastropods (Cerithioidea: Pachychilidae) -- The Neglected Side of the Coin: Non-adaptive Radiations in Spring Snails (Bythinella spp.).
Keywords: Evolutionary biology; Biodiversity; Evolutionary Biology; Biodiversity