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Avian Growth and Development
Evolution within the Altricial-Precocial Spectrum
Edited by J. Matthias Starck and Robert E. Ricklefs
452 pages
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halftones, numerous line drawings
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254x175mm
978-0-19-510608-4
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Hardback
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21 May 1998
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- First book of its kind in 50 years
- Covers most aspects of avian development
- Attempts an integration of organismal biology, ecology, and evolution on all levels of comparison
This is the first re-appraisal in 50 years of concepts of development made in birds. This book is a case study in evolutionary diversification of life histories. Although birds have a rather uniform body plan and physiology, they exhibit marked variation in development type, parental care, and rate of growth. Altricial birds are fully dependent on their parents for warmth and nutrition and begin post-hatching life in a more or less embryonic condition. At the other extreme, such superprecocial species as the megapodes are independent of all parental care from hatching, and the neonate, able to fly, resembles an adult
bird. This book thus attempts to present an integrative perspective of organism biology, ecology, and evolution.Readership: Ornithologists and people interested in the evolution of life histories, phylogenetics and adaptation, and comparative physiology.
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Edited by J. Matthias Starck, Assistant Professor, Zoologisches Institut, University of Tübingen, Germany, and Robert E. Ricklefs, Curators Professor of Biology, University of Missouri, St Louis, USA
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J. Matthias Starck and Robert E. Ricklefs: Introduction
1: J. Matthias Starck and Robert E. Ricklefs: Patterns of Development: The Altricial-Precocial Spectrum
2: Robert E. Ricklefs and J. Matthias Starck: Embryonic Development
3: Structural Variants and Invariants in Avian Embryonic and Postnatal Development
4: Carol M. Vleck and Theresa L. Bucher: Energy Metabolism, Gas Exchange, and Ventilation
5: G. Henk Visser: Development of Temperature Regulation
6: Esa Hohtola and Henk Visser: Development of Locomotion and Endothermy in altricial and precocial birds
7: F.M. Anne McNabb, Colin G. Scanes, and Michael Zeman: The Endocrine System
8: Victor Apanius: The Immune System
9: Heinz Duttman and H. Heiner Bergmann: Development of Behavior
10: J. Matthias Starck and Robert E. Ricklefs: Variation, Constraint, and Phylogeny. Comparative Analysis of Variation in Growth
11: Robert E. Ricklefs, J. Matthias Starck, and Marek Konarzewski: Internal Constraints on Growth in Birds
12: William A. Schew and Robert E. Ricklefs: Developmental Plasticity
13: Arie van Noordwijk and Henry Marks: Genetic Aspects of Growth
14: Sabine Gebhardt-Henrich and Heinz Richner: Causes of Growth Variation and its Consequences for Fitness
15: Marek Konarzewski, Sebastian Jooijman, and Robert E. Ricklefs: Models for Avian Growth and Development
16: Robert E. Ricklefs and J. Matthias Starck: The Evolution of Developmental Mode in Birds
17: J. Matthias Starck and Robert E. Ricklefs: Data Set of Avian Growth Parameters
Summary, Conclusions, and Research Agenda
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